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HOLOMAS
2011
Springer
12 years 10 months ago
Dynamic Trajectory Replanning for Unmanned Aircrafts Supporting Tactical Missions in Urban Environments
In the last decade we witnessed an increased demand for employment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in practise. For instance, there is a growing need to provide surveillance task...
Lukás Chrpa, Peter Novák
JIRS
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Flyphone: Visual Self-Localisation Using a Mobile Phone as Onboard Image Processor on a Quadrocopter
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) needs to orient itself in its operating environment to fly autonomously. Localisation methods based on visual data are independent of erroneous GPS...
Sara Erhard, Karl Engelbert Wenzel, Andreas Zell
TROB
2002
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13 years 10 months ago
Probabilistic pursuit-evasion games: theory, implementation, and experimental evaluation
We consider the problem of having a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) pursue a second team of evaders while concurrently building a map in a...
René Vidal, Omid Shakernia, H. Jin Kim, Dav...
AUTOMATICA
2004
138views more  AUTOMATICA 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Decentralized overlapping control of a formation of unmanned aerial vehicles
Decentralized overlapping feedback laws are designed for a formation of unmanned aerial vehicles. The dynamic model of the formation with an information structure constraint in wh...
Dusan M. Stipanovic, Gökhan Inalhan, Rodney T...
ECAI
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Stream-Based Reasoning Support for Autonomous Systems
Abstract. For autonomous systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles to successfully perform complex missions, a great deal of embedded reasoning is required at varying levels of abst...
Fredrik Heintz, Jonas Kvarnström, Patrick Doh...
GECCO
2008
Springer
143views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 12 months ago
Collective intelligence and bush fire spotting
Bush fires cause major damage each year in many areas of the world and the earlier that they can be detected the easier it is to minimize this damage. This paper describes a coll...
David Howden, Tim Hendtlass
WSC
1998
14 years 4 days ago
Reactive Tabu Search in Unmanned Aerial Reconnaissance Simulations
We apply a Reactive Tabu Search (RTS) heuristic within a discrete-event simulation to solve routing problems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Our formulation represents this p...
Joel L. Ryan, T. Glenn Bailey, James T. Moore, Wil...
CEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Automatic system identification based on coevolution of models and tests
In evolutionary robotics, controllers are often designed in simulation, then transferred onto the real system. Nevertheless, when no accurate model is available, controller transfe...
Sylvain Koos, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Stéphan...
ECBS
2004
IEEE
102views Hardware» more  ECBS 2004»
14 years 2 months ago
WASP: A Radio Geolocation System on Highly Resource Constrained Mobile Platforms
In recent years, there has been an increased need for surveillance capabilities in both civilian and military arenas. Mobile unmanned sensor fleets have long been envisioned as a ...
Kumar Chhokra, Ted Bapty, Jason Scott, Simon Winbe...
CDC
2009
IEEE
166views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Stability and noises evaluation of Fuzzy/Kalman UAV navigation system
In this paper a new Fuzzy/Kalman navigation system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is presented. A closed loop velocity Fuzzy navigation system is proposed for stabilizing the U...
Francesco Maria Raimondi, Maurizio Melluso