Unmanned Air Vehicles

Abstract

A major part of our research effort on unmanned autonomous vehicles is the development and fabrication of an aerial platform capable of supporting research on a number of topics, including multi-agent hybrid systems involving sensor fusion, discrete decision making under uncertainty, coordinated mission planning, and distributed control. The foundation of an experimental system on these topics is a dependable autonomous aerial platform that is responsive to requests for basic flight maneuvers such as takeoff, landing, hover, and waypoint navigation. The autonomous aerial platform developed on ARO Grant DAAG55-98-1-0094 at the University of California, Berkeley, consists of reliable aerial vehicles, integrated position and attitude sensors, embedded real-time flight controller and auxiliary computing systems, communication packages, and vision capabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA391056

Entities

People

  • S. Shankar Sastry

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Control Systems
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Flight
  • Flight Maneuvers
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Guidance
  • Navigation
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Three Dimensional
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

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  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control