Aerial pruning mechanism, initial real environment test

Rapid prototyping flight test environment for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles

Test facility is essential for most of engineering research activities, from modeling and identification to verification of algorithms/methods and final demonstration. It is well known that flight tests for aerospace vehicles are expensive and quite risky. To overcome this, this paper describes a rapid prototyping platform for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) developed at Loughborough ...

State Pruning for Generating Efficient Test Vectors

The previously proposed witness string method [2] generates traces for system verification using a model checker and then uses the traces to drive the RTL logic design simulation. This paper extends the depth first search (DFS) used in the original witness string method with a state pruning method that exploits multiple search heuristics in simultaneous searches where each DFS uses a different ...

Initial coefficients of starlike functions with real coefficients

The sharp bounds for the third and fourth coefficients of Ma-Minda starlike functions having fixed second coefficient are determined. These results are proved by using certain constraint coefficient problem for functions with positive real part whose coefficients are real and the first coefficient is kept fixed. Analogous results are obtained for a general class of close-to-convex functions

Initial Test Rigs

Aerial robots physically interacting with the environment

Aerial robotics has experienced a significant development in the last 10 years. The main methods, technologies and applications have been related to information exchanges of the aerial robots with objects in the environment, with ground stations and between several aerial robots. Recently, new applications that involve physical interaction such as load transportation and inspection are being re...