Application of Concurrent Engineering Methods to the Design of an Autonomous Aerial Robot

Abstract

This paper documents the year-long efforts of a multidisciplinary design team to design, build, and support an autonomous aerial robotics system. The system was developed to participate in the Association for Unmanned Vehicle System's (AUVS) First International Aerial Robotics Competition which was held in Atlanta, Georgia on the Georgia Tech campus on July 29th, 1991. As development time and budget were extremely limited, the team elected to attempt the design using concurrent engineering design methods. These methods were validated in an IDA study by Winner 1 in the late-1980s to be particularly adept at handling the difficulties to design presented by these limitations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA254968

Entities

People

  • Stephen A. Ingalls

Organizations

  • Georgia Tech

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Civil Engineering
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Control Systems
  • Data Transmission
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineers
  • Organizational Structure
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Management
  • Two Dimensional
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems

Readers

  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy