Multi-Vehicle Flight Experiments: Recent Results and Future Directions

Abstract

This paper discusses recent flight test results in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory (ACL) at MIT. This includes flight tests using a large team of simple external UAVs and a unique indoor multi-vehicle testbed named RAVEN (Real-time Autonomous Vehicle indoor test Environment). RAVEN is comprised of both aerial and ground vehicles, allowing researchers to conduct tests for a wide variety of long-duration mission scenarios in a controlled environment. A comparison of RAVEN with previous testbeds illustrates the many advantages of this new approach.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA478682

Entities

People

  • Jonathan How

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircrafts
  • Airplanes
  • Algorithms
  • Automatic Pilots
  • Computations
  • Control Systems
  • Environment
  • Flight
  • Flight Testing
  • Software Prototyping
  • Test Methods
  • Three Dimensional
  • Uncertainty
  • Unmanned
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Vehicles

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  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers