Preliminary Evaluation of a Haptic Aiding Concept for Remotely Piloted Vehicles

Project 2.8: Quantifying the Benefits of Haptic Shared Control for Remotely Controlled and Semi- Automated Ground Vehicles

A remotely piloted aircraft system in major incident management: concept and pilot, feasibility study

BACKGROUND Major incidents are complex, dynamic and bewildering task environments characterised by simultaneous, rapidly changing events, uncertainty and ill-structured problems. Efficient management, communication, decision-making and allocation of scarce medical resources at the chaotic scene of a major incident is challenging and often relies on sparse information and data. Communication and...

High Speed Lunar Navigation for Crewed and Remotely Piloted Vehicles

Increased navigation speed is desirable for lunar rovers, whether autonomous, crewed or remotely operated, but is hampered by the low gravity, high contrast lighting and rough terrain. We describe lidar based navigation system deployed on NASA’s K10 autonomous rover and to increase the terrain hazard situational awareness of the Lunar Electric Rover crew.

Finite element analysis of vehicle-structure interactions during launching of remotely piloted air-vehicles

The problem of finite element modeling and analysis of dynamic interactions between the launcher and a remotely piloted aircraft structure is considered. The governing equations of motion are shown to constitute a set of ordinary differential equations with time varying structural matrices. An iterative strategy that treats separately the dynamics of the launcher and the aircraft is developed. ...

Design and experimental evaluation of a teleoperated haptic robot–assisted catheter operating system

Minimally invasive surgery and therapy is popularly used both for diagnosis and for surgery. Teleoperation, a promising surgery, is used to protect the surgeon from X-ray radiation as well as to address the problem of lacking experienced surgeons in remote rural areas. However, surgery success ratio should be considered because the surgeon was separated from the patient remotely. A most effecti...