There is an increasing demand for using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), known as drones, in different applications such packages delivery, traffic monitoring, search and rescue operations, military combat engagements. In all of these applications, the UAV used to navigate environment autonomously - without human interaction, perform specific tasks avoid obstacles. Autonomous navigation commonly ...

This thesis presents the development and implementation of approximate dynamic programming methods used to manage multi-agent systems. The purpose of this thesis is to develop an architectural framework and theoretical methods that enable an autonomous mission system to manage real-time multi-agent operations. To meet this goal, we begin by discussing aspects of the real-time multi-agent missio...

As the Services move to transform joint and coalition operations, a new capability being contemplated for the transformed forces is synchronizing manned-combat-vehicle and unmanned-combat-vehicle target engagements. However, we are just beginning to work out the details for implementing such a symphony of coordinated human and machine decisions and actions. One challenge in realizing an impleme...

Autonomous vehicles gains increasing importance in various growing application areas. The navigation, guidance and control of an autonomous vehicle is a highly complex task. Making a vehicle intelligent and able to operate unmanned requires extensive theoretical as well as practical knowledge. This paper focuses on designing and implementation of GPS based autonomous guided vehicle navigation, ...

This paper presents a vehicle autonomous localization method in local area of coal mine tunnel based on vision sensors and ultrasonic sensors. Barcode tags are deployed in pairs on both sides of the tunnel walls at certain intervals as artificial landmarks. The barcode coding is designed based on UPC-A code. The global coordinates of the upper left inner corner point of the feature frame of eac...

The control design for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) is challenging due to the uncertainties in the complex dynamic modeling of the vehicle as well as its unstructured operational environment. To cope with these difficulties, a practical robust control is therefore desirable. The paper deals with the application of coefficient diagram method (CDM) for a robust control design of an autonom...

A neuro-adaptive approach for autonomous flight controller design for aerial robots is proposed. Three intelligent modules are implemented to control respectively the altitude, airspeed and roll angle of the airplane, through which the altitude and the latitude-longitude of the unmanned aerial vehicle are controlled. Each intelligent module consists of a conventional feedback controller and a n...