The ubiquity of loyalty programs has given rise to a multitude of new currencies (e.g., frequent flier miles, Hilton HHonors points, Diner’s Club “Club Rewards”) that people accrue, save and spend much like traditional paper money. Unlike cash, these alternative currencies are not perfectly fungible. In other words, they are neither universally accepted, nor can they be spent in any increment, ...

A definition of intelligence is given in terms of performance that can be quantitatively measured. Behaviors required of unmanned ground vehicles are described and computational requirements for intelligent control at seven hierarchical levels in a military scout platoon are outlined. Metrics and measurements are suggested for evaluating the performance of unmanned ground vehicles. Calibrated d...

This paper deals with the inspection of pipeline by means of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The different methods of pipeline inspection, its technical and economic efficiency have been examined. The theoretical and experimental base for air monitoring on base of On Board Infrared Equipment (OBIE) have been examined. The method of pipeline inspection by means of UAV has been proposed. The descr...

We present our SAAVE (Synthetic Attention-span for Autonomous Vehicle Environments) technology. Originally designed for an unmanned vehicle (UV) application, SAAVE can be used to provide effective, mission-focused, low-bandwidth information sharing among teams of unmanned vehicles or other robotic entities. SAAVE combines system capability and mission effectiveness monitoring and introspective ...

Citation: Lehmann JRK, Prinz T, Ziller SR, Thiele J, Heringer G, Meira-Neto JAA and Buttschardt TK (2017) Open-Source Processing and Analysis of Aerial Imagery Acquired with a Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial System to Support Invasive Plant Management. Front. Environ. Sci. 5:44. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2017.00044 Open-Source Processing and Analysis of Aerial Imagery Acquired with a Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial...

In this paper, we present an unmanned system design methodology for a fully functional unmanned rotorcraft system: GremLion, developed with all necessary avionics and a ground control station. It has been employed to participate in the 2012 UAVForge competition. The proposed design methodology consists of hardware construction, software development, dynamic modeling and flight control, as well ...

A definition of intelligence is given in terms of performance that can be quantitatively measured. Behaviors required of unmanned ground vehicles are described and computational requirements for intelligent control at seven hierarchical levels in a military scout platoon are outlined. Metrics and measurements are suggested for evaluating the performance of unmanned ground vehicles. Calibrated d...

In this paper we aim to discuss adaptive flocking control of multiple Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) by using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). We utilize a Quadrotor to provide the positions of all agents and also to manage the shrinking or expanding of the agents with respect to the environmental changes. The proposed method adaptively causes changing in the sensing range of the ground robot...