Autonomous Landing of a Rotary-Wing UAV on a Shipboard

Abstract

The report details outlines methods and results of those methods towards advancing autonomous landing of an UAV on a shipboard. Landing on a stationary platform in laboratory environment is consistently demonstrated. Landing on a dynamic platform is currently undergoing flight testing, with preliminary results shown. To tackle gusts or changing vehicle dynamics in the wake of the ship, adaptive and reinforcement learning controls are explored in simulations with promising results.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 10, 2020
Accession Number
AD1112161

Entities

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Climate Change
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Detectors
  • Frequency
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Ground Control Stations
  • Ground Stations
  • Guidance
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Kalman Filters
  • Measurement
  • Micro Air Vehicles
  • Navigation
  • Neural Networks
  • Ship Decks
  • Three Dimensional
  • Universities
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Readers

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  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems