Micro Air Vehicle Scouts for Inventory Management and Situational Awareness
Abstract
Reliable and efficient acquisition of data from physical spaces will have countless applications in industry, policy and defense. The capability of gaining information at different scales makes Micro-Aerial Vehicles(MAVs) excellent for aforementioned applications. However, reasoning about information gathering at multiple resolution is NP-Hard and the state of the art methods are too slow to present an approximate solution online. Moreover, a robust data gathering system needs to be lightweight/portable, independent of GPS or communications availability while being safe, and cognizant of its sensory and battery limitations. Through Department of Defense grants for developing Adaptive Introspection and Deployment for Robust Long Duration Autonomy and Micro Air Vehicle Scouts for Intelligent Semantic Mapping we have developed a set algorithms and an autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicle that can gather data while safely operating in unstructured environments using vision only sensors. Such a system has the potential to create value for military and commercial applications specifically for reconnaissance and inventory/yard management. Through this grant, we will explore the exact market for such a system and bring onboard the stakeholders, customers for commercialization of the technology developed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Feb 14, 2019
- Source ID
- W911NF1810121
Entities
People
- Sebastian Scherer
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Office of the Secretary of Defense