{"title":"Modeling and control of a novel tilt — Roll rotor quadrotor UAV","authors":"Fatih Senkul, E. Altuğ","doi":"10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564796","url":null,"abstract":"The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for military, scientific, and civilian sectors are increasing drastically in recent years. The quadrotor platform has been used for many applications and research studies, as well. One of the limiting factors that prevents further implementation of the quadrotor system into applications, is the way quadrotor moves. It needs to tilt along the desired direction of motion. By doing this it can have necessary acceleration towards that direction. But tilting has the undesired effect of moving the onboard cameras' direction of view. This becomes an issue for surveillance and other vision based tasks. This study presents the design and control of a novel quadrotor system. Unlike previous study that uses regular quadrotor, this study proposes an alternative propulsion system formed by tilting rotors. This design eliminates the need of tilting the airframe, and it suggests superior performance with respect to regular quadrotor design. The mathematical model of the tiltable-rotor type quadrotor and designed control algorithms are explained. Various simulations are developed on MATLAB, in which the proposed quadrotor aerial vehicle has been successfully controlled. Comparison of the proposed system to regular quadrotor suggests better performance.","PeriodicalId":322089,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)","volume":"43 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125673435","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}
{"title":"Lightweight infrared sensing for relative navigation of quadrotors","authors":"M. Cutler, Bernard Michini, J. How","doi":"10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564807","url":null,"abstract":"A lightweight solution for estimating position and velocity relative to a known marker is presented. The marker consists of three infrared (IR) LEDs in a fixed pattern. Using an IR camera with a 100 Hz update rate, the range and bearing to the marker are calculated. This information is then fused with inertial sensor information to produce state estimates at 1 kHz using a sigma point Kalman filter. The computation takes place on a 14 gram custom autopilot, yielding a lightweight system for generating high-rate relative state information. The estimation scheme is compared to data recorded with a motion capture system.","PeriodicalId":322089,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132759841","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}
{"title":"Tracking tagged fish with swarming Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using fractional order potential fields and Kalman filtering","authors":"A. Jensen, Y. Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564805","url":null,"abstract":"Tracking fish using implanted radio transmitters is an important part of studying and preserving native fish species. However, conventional methods for locating the fish after they are tagged can be time consuming and costly. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)s have been used in general radio localization applications and can possibly be used to locate fish quickly and effectively. However, the methods developed for multi-UAV navigation and transmitter localization are complex and might not work well for practical and routine use. This work focuses on developing simple methods for multi-UAV navigation and transmitter localization. Swarm-like navigation methods (using potential fields) are used for multi-UAV navigation, and a simple Kalman Filter is used to estimate the location of the transmitter. Simulations are presented using one, two and three UAVs. The simulation results show the success with locating the transmitter with two or three UAVs. In addition, coordination between the UAVs is successful using the simple rules of their virtual magnetic fields. A clustering behavior is observed and contributes to the success of the localization.","PeriodicalId":322089,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129651907","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}
{"title":"Proportional Integral Derivative and Linear Quadratic Regulation of a multirotor attitude: Mathematical modelling, simulations and experimental results","authors":"A. Gargioli, F. Rinaldi, F. Quagliotti","doi":"10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564718","url":null,"abstract":"Multirotors have been recognised to be particularly interesting for surveillance, search and rescue, imaging and more, because of their several advantages as the high manoeuvrability and the vertical take off and landing capability. This paper presents the experimental results of the application of a Proportional Integral Derivative control law and a Linear Quadratic Regulation technique to the attitude of a multirotor. The reader is driven through all the main steps required to reach this goal, starting from the derivation of the mathematical model and the control laws, to the simulations and the experimental tests.","PeriodicalId":322089,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124950481","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}
{"title":"Some aspect of human features of the use of Unmanned Aerial Systems in a disaster-specific division","authors":"Á. Restás, Zoltán Dudás","doi":"10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564791","url":null,"abstract":"This article facing to human features of the use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) in a disaster-specific division. Features of these application looks like partly military, partly civil, however having also own disaster-specific features. For ensuring both safety fly and successfully management it is useful looking through some special features of the use of UAS for supporting disaster management. This article counts with 5 disasters in Hungary can occur, like nuclear accidents, dangerous material releases, floods, earthquakes and forest fires. Results of this article are based on the study authors made in the project called TÁMOP-4.2.1.B11/2/KMR-2011-0001 \"Research for Critical Infrastructure Protection”, at the National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary.","PeriodicalId":322089,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)","volume":"266 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116242076","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}
{"title":"Decentralized control of unmanned aerial vehicles for multitarget tracking","authors":"Shankarachary Ragi, E. Chong","doi":"10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564698","url":null,"abstract":"We design a guidance control method for a fleet of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) tracking multiple targets in a decentralized setting. Our method is based on the theory of decentralized partially observable Markov decision process (Dec-POMDP). Like partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), it is intractable to solve Dec-POMDPs exactly. So, we extend a POMDP approximation method called nominal belief-state optimization (NBO) to solve Dec-POMDP. We incorporate the cost of communication into the objective function of Dec-POMDP, i.e., we explicitly optimize the communication among the UAVs along with the kinematic-control commands for the UAVs. We measure the performance of our guidance method with the following metrics: 1) average target-location error, and 2) average communication cost. The goal to maximize the performance with respect to each of the above metrics conflict with each other, and we show through empirical study how to trade off between these performance metrics using a scalar parameter.","PeriodicalId":322089,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)","volume":"310 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122778254","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}
A. Muñoz‐Vázquez, Vicente Parra‐Vega, A. Sanchez, H. Ramirez-Rodriguez
{"title":"A passive velocity field for navigation of quadrotors with model-free integral sliding mode control","authors":"A. Muñoz‐Vázquez, Vicente Parra‐Vega, A. Sanchez, H. Ramirez-Rodriguez","doi":"10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564673","url":null,"abstract":"Velocity field (VF) control has proved effective for mobile robots and robot arms, aiming essentially at navigation and obstacle avoidance under position and velocity control in cluttered environment, however additional features are required for quadrotors due to its underactuated flight dynamics. The design of a VF control then comprises of two aspects, the design of the desired trajectories based on the VF and the design of the controller that guarantees tracking of such trajectories. In this paper, we propose a constructive method to design a passive VF for desired underactuated translational velocities; for desired orientation trajectories and due to the underactuation, those depend on the VF and the position controller from the analytical solution of the derivative of the rotation matrix. The controller uses model-free and chattering-free integral sliding modes for position and for attitude dynamics without requiring derivative of the VF nor assumption on boundedness on the integral of the VF nor the quadrotor dynamic model to withstand robustness against parametric and model uncertainties. It is shown that the controller steers the quadrotor onto the VF for all time and any initial conditions so as to the quadrotor behaves accordingly to the properties of the VF, such as exponential convergence toward the time-invariant nominal spatial contour for a robust and fast, yet smooth, approaching for easy manoeuvring. Simulations are discussed, and remarks address the viability of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":322089,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129742540","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}
M. Saska, T. Krajník, Vojtěch Vonásek, P. Vanek, L. Preucil
{"title":"Navigation, localization and stabilization of formations of unmanned aerial and ground vehicles","authors":"M. Saska, T. Krajník, Vojtěch Vonásek, P. Vanek, L. Preucil","doi":"10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564767","url":null,"abstract":"A leader-follower formation driving algorithm developed for control of heterogeneous groups of unmanned micro aerial and ground vehicles stabilized under a top-view relative localization is presented in this paper. The core of the proposed method lies in a novel avoidance function, in which the entire 3D formation is represented by a convex hull projected along a desired path to be followed by the group. Such a representation of the formation provides non-collision trajectories of the robots and respects requirements of the direct visibility between the team members in environment with static as well as dynamic obstacles, which is crucial for the top-view localization. The algorithm is suited for utilization of a simple yet stable visual based navigation of the group (referred to as GeNav), which together with the on-board relative localization enables deployment of large teams of micro-scale robots in environments without any available global localization system. We formulate a novel Model Predictive Control (MPC) based concept that enables to respond to the changing environment and that provides a robust solution with team members' failure tolerance included. The performance of the proposed method is verified by numerical and hardware experiments inspired by reconnaissance and surveillance missions.","PeriodicalId":322089,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128270098","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}
{"title":"Identification of directional runway dynamics for an experimental UAV","authors":"I. Drago, B. Maciel, E. M. Hemerly, F. A. Almeida","doi":"10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564773","url":null,"abstract":"The knowledge of the ground directional behavior of an UAV during the ground phase is crucial in order to develop an automatic take-off and landing control system. During such development program, it is very common to use prototypes. These prototypes have specifics components and mostly of the performance characteristics of these components are unknown. This paper deals with the identification of the ground dynamics of a nose wheel tricycle landing gear by using real UAV runway tests data. A simplified mathematical model is proposed for identification by using Output Error Method with minimization of the cost function by Levenberg-Marquartd. The identification results enable development of ground steering laws.","PeriodicalId":322089,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129274875","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}
{"title":"A vision and GPS-based real-time trajectory planning for MAV in unknown urban environments","authors":"G. Flores, Shuting Zhou, R. Lozano, P. Castillo","doi":"10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564806","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the issue of real-time optimal trajectory generation of a micro Air Vehicle (MAV) in unknown urban environments. The MAV is required to navigate from an initial and outdoor position to a final position inside a building. To achieve this objective, we develop a safe path planning method using the information provided by the GPS and a consumer depth camera. With the purpose to develop a safe path planning with obstacle avoidance capabilities, a model predictive control approach is developed, which uses the environment information acquired by the navigation system.","PeriodicalId":322089,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123969004","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}