Unmanned Syst.Pub Date : 2021-02-06DOI: 10.1142/s230138502141003x
Xuzan Liu, Yu Han, Jian Chen
{"title":"Discrete Pigeon-Inspired Optimization-Simulated Annealing Algorithm and Optimal Reciprocal Collision Avoidance Scheme for Fixed-Wing UAV Formation Assembly","authors":"Xuzan Liu, Yu Han, Jian Chen","doi":"10.1142/s230138502141003x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s230138502141003x","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-UAV system is an important part of unmanned system, which plays an indispensable role in military field and civil agriculture. First, task assignment model including complex constraints is es...","PeriodicalId":164619,"journal":{"name":"Unmanned Syst.","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129418339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Unmanned Syst.Pub Date : 2021-02-05DOI: 10.1142/s2301385021410041
Juncheng Li, Maopeng Ran, Han Wang, Lihua Xie
{"title":"A Behavior-Based Mobile Robot Navigation Method with Deep Reinforcement Learning","authors":"Juncheng Li, Maopeng Ran, Han Wang, Lihua Xie","doi":"10.1142/s2301385021410041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s2301385021410041","url":null,"abstract":"Deep reinforcement learning-based mobile robot navigation has attracted some recent interest. In the single-agent case, a robot can learn to navigate autonomously without a map of the environment. In the multi-agent case, robots can learn to avoid collisions with each other. In this work, we propose a behavior-based mobile robot navigation method which directly maps the raw sensor data and goal information to the control command. The learned navigation policy can be applied in both single-agent and multi-agent scenarios. Two basic navigation behaviors are considered in our method, which are goal reaching and collision avoidance. The two behaviors are fused based on the risk-level estimation of the current state. The navigation task is decomposed using the behavior-based framework, which is capable of reducing the complexity of the learning process. The simulations and real-world experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can enable the collision-free autonomous navigation of multiple mobile robots in unknown environments.","PeriodicalId":164619,"journal":{"name":"Unmanned Syst.","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125271474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Unmanned Syst.Pub Date : 2021-01-18DOI: 10.1142/S2301385021500163
Yeong-Ki Jung, K. Chang, Sang-Hwan Park, Van-Thanh Ho, H. Shim, Min-Woo Kim
{"title":"Reverse Engineering and Database of Off-the-Shelf Propellers for Middle-Size Multirotors","authors":"Yeong-Ki Jung, K. Chang, Sang-Hwan Park, Van-Thanh Ho, H. Shim, Min-Woo Kim","doi":"10.1142/S2301385021500163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S2301385021500163","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, 22 off-the-shelf propellers of 15–40 inches in diameter are reverse-engineered using a scanning system and reverse engineering software. Geometric information, including the diameter and pitch of the propeller and its airfoil sections, are extracted, and the chord length and twist angle of the extracted airfoil sections are investigated. All processes for reverse engineering are validated through comparison with design drawing information, product and performance data of the KPROP propeller designed by Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Based on the validated process, a database of 22 commercial propellers from four companies is constructed containing all the reverse-engineered information. The chord length, the maximum length and twist angle with respect to the diameter of the extracted airfoil section are analyzed in comparison with each other depending on the company and propeller size. In addition, the thrust and torque are simulated using computational fluid dynamic methodology, and the predictions are compared with reference data provided by the manufacturers.","PeriodicalId":164619,"journal":{"name":"Unmanned Syst.","volume":"18 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120853796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Unmanned Syst.Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.1142/s2301385021410028
Y. Tan, Ben M. Chen
{"title":"Survey on the Development of Aerial-Aquatic Hybrid Vehicles","authors":"Y. Tan, Ben M. Chen","doi":"10.1142/s2301385021410028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s2301385021410028","url":null,"abstract":"As the development of mobile robots matures, there is an increasing amount of interest in expanding the functionality of such robots through developing multimodal locomotion. As compared to land–water or land–air hybrids, the design of air–water vehicles is much less straightforward due to the fact that both mediums are three-dimensional fluid spaces and there is inherent disparity in fluid properties between them. As such, the development of these vehicles has received limited attention until very recently. Nevertheless, the potential applications of such vehicles range widely from military surveillance, oceanic data collection to heterogeneous robot team operation, which has led to an increasing number of projects working on aerial–aquatic hybrid mobility. In this paper, we discuss the fundamental challenges associated with aerial–aquatic hybrid locomotion as well as the necessary trade-offs in design decisions. We also summarize and review the existing work and prototypes of aerial–aquatic vehicles that have been designed thus far, analyzing the range of solutions that have been adopted to solve the aforementioned challenges. Lastly, the limitations of these solutions are analyzed to offer a perspective on how future developments in the area can enable greater functionality for the concept.","PeriodicalId":164619,"journal":{"name":"Unmanned Syst.","volume":"254 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134641449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Unmanned Syst.Pub Date : 2020-11-30DOI: 10.1142/s2301385021500151
Menglu Lan, Shupeng Lai, Tong-heng Lee, Ben M. Chen
{"title":"A Survey of Motion and Task Planning Techniques for Unmanned Multicopter Systems","authors":"Menglu Lan, Shupeng Lai, Tong-heng Lee, Ben M. Chen","doi":"10.1142/s2301385021500151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s2301385021500151","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned aerial systems provide many applications with the ability to perform flying tasks autonomously, and hence have received significant research and commercial attention in the past decade. One of the most popular unmanned aerial platforms for such tasks is the small-scale rotorcraft with multiple rotors, commonly known as multicopters. In order for these platforms to perform fully autonomous missions and tasks, they require a sophisticated low-level flight control system that is integrated with advanced task and motion planning modules, which combine together to form the complete unmanned aerial system (UAS). In this paper, the planning module of unmanned multicopter systems is discussed in detail, and a comprehensive survey on techniques for both motion and task planning reported in literature and by the Unmanned Systems Research Group at the National University of Singapore is presented.","PeriodicalId":164619,"journal":{"name":"Unmanned Syst.","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128292096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Unmanned Syst.Pub Date : 2020-11-25DOI: 10.1142/s2301385021500126
A. Hamissi, K. Busawon, L. Dala, Y. Bouzid, M. Zaouche, M. Hamerlain
{"title":"A New Nonlinear Control Design Strategy for Fixed Wing Aircrafts Piloting","authors":"A. Hamissi, K. Busawon, L. Dala, Y. Bouzid, M. Zaouche, M. Hamerlain","doi":"10.1142/s2301385021500126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s2301385021500126","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a novel nonlinear feedback control strategy for velocity and attitude control of fixed wing aircrafts. The key feature of the control design strategy is the introduction of a virtual control input in order to deal with the underactuation property of such vehicles and to indirectly control the orientation of the aircraft. As such, the proposed strategy consists of three control loops each realizing a specific task. Simulations are carried out by using the jetstream-3102 aircraft in a real-time virtual Simulation Platform for the development of Aircraft Control Systems (SP-ACS). The proposed approach of control is model-based for which we have introduces an identification part before test and validation. We use the Total Least Squares Estimation (TLSE) technique to identify the aerodynamic parameters, which are unknown, variable and classified. Each aerodynamic coefficient is defined as the mean of its numerical values. All other variations are considered as modeling uncertainties that will be compensated by the robustness of the piloting law. Simulation results on Jetstream-3102 aircraft show very good performance in terms of convergence towards the desired reference trajectories and in terms of robustness with respect to modeling uncertainties.","PeriodicalId":164619,"journal":{"name":"Unmanned Syst.","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115164777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Unmanned Syst.Pub Date : 2020-11-21DOI: 10.1142/s230138502150014x
Shenghai Yuan, Han Wang, Lihua Xie
{"title":"Survey on Localization Systems and Algorithms for Unmanned Systems","authors":"Shenghai Yuan, Han Wang, Lihua Xie","doi":"10.1142/s230138502150014x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s230138502150014x","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent unmanned systems have important applications, such as pesticide-spraying in agriculture, robot-based warehouse management systems, and missile-firing drones. The underlying assumption behind all autonomy is that the agent knows its relative position or egomotion with respect to some reference or scene. There exist thousands of localization systems in the literature. These localization systems use various combinations of sensors and algorithms, such as visual/visual-inertial SLAM, to achieve robust localization. The majority of the methods use one or more sensors from LIDAR, camera, IMU, UWB, GPS, compass, tracking system, etc. This survey presents a systematic review and analysis of published algorithms and techniques chronologically, and we introduce various highly impactful works. We provide insightful investigation and taxonomy on sensory data forming principle, feature association principle, egomotion estimation formation, and fusion model for each type of system. At last, some open problems and directions for future research are also included. We aim to survey the literature comprehensively to provide a complete understanding of localization methodologies, performance, advantages and limitations, and evaluations of various methods, shedding some light for future research.","PeriodicalId":164619,"journal":{"name":"Unmanned Syst.","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114607442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Unmanned Syst.Pub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1142/s2301385021500138
M. El-Salamony, M. Aziz
{"title":"Impact of N-Shaped Wing Morphing on Solar-Powered Aircraft","authors":"M. El-Salamony, M. Aziz","doi":"10.1142/s2301385021500138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s2301385021500138","url":null,"abstract":"Generally, unmanned aerial vehicles and micro aerial vehicles depend on batteries or conventional fuel as a source of energy. These sources of energy have limited flight time, relatively high cost, and also a certain level of pollutants. Solar energy applied to aerial vehicles is an excellent alternative way to overcome other sources of energy’s disadvantage. This study aimed to design a solar-powered aerial vehicle to achieve continuous flight on Earth. The efficiency of the solar system is related to the absorbed sun rays. The concept of an anti-symmetric N-shaped morphing wing is a good idea to increase the collected solar energy during the daily sun path. But this comes with the penalty of side forces and moments due to the anti-symmetry of the wing. This paper introduces a study for two parameters that strongly affect the aerodynamics of the N-shaped morphing wing; the dihedral part angle and the dihedral part length. The impact of the dihedral angle decreases the lift coefficient and increases the drag coefficient. The impact of the morphing wing on the aircraft performance is also considered.","PeriodicalId":164619,"journal":{"name":"Unmanned Syst.","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115411949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Unmanned Syst.Pub Date : 2020-10-30DOI: 10.1142/s2301385021410016
Han Fu, H. Liu
{"title":"Optimal Solution of a Target Defense Game with Two defenders and a Faster Intrude","authors":"Han Fu, H. Liu","doi":"10.1142/s2301385021410016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s2301385021410016","url":null,"abstract":"A target defense game with two defenders and a faster intruder is solved based on the classic differential game theory. In the game, the intruder seeks to enter a circular target area, while the defenders endeavor to capture it outside of the target. Under the faster intruder assumption, the game has two phases, where the optimal trajectories are straight and curved, respectively. In the second phase, a peculiar phenomenon exists where the intruder moves at the edge of one defender’s capture region, yet this defender cannot force capture. Because of this, the terminal states of the game are singular, therefore the standard method of integrating optimal trajectories from terminal states is not applicable. The way to circumvent this singularity is to solve the optimal trajectories of a two-player game between the intruder and the closer defender, and assemble them with the trajectory of the other defender. The key contribution of this paper is the solution of the intruder-closer-defender subgame against a circular target area. In the vector field of the optimal trajectories, two singular surfaces and a singular point are observed. Each singular surface indicates a discontinuity in the closer defender’s control, while the singular point represents a situation where the target is successfully protected by a single defender. The complete solution of the two-defender game is solved based on the result of the intruder-closer-defender subgame. The proposed solution is verified through a special case where the capture range is zero. This verification also presents a simpler approach of solving the zero capture range problem.","PeriodicalId":164619,"journal":{"name":"Unmanned Syst.","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125595528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Unmanned Syst.Pub Date : 2020-10-29DOI: 10.1142/S2301385021500114
Simone A. Ludwig
{"title":"Investigation of Orientation Estimation of Multiple IMUs","authors":"Simone A. Ludwig","doi":"10.1142/S2301385021500114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S2301385021500114","url":null,"abstract":"Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) were first applied to aircraft navigation and large devices in the 1930s. At that time their application was restricted because of constraints such as size, cost, ...","PeriodicalId":164619,"journal":{"name":"Unmanned Syst.","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114705489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}