This paper describes an absolute localisation method for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) if GPS is unavailable for the vehicle. The basic idea is to combine an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to the ground vehicle and use it as an external sensor platform to achieve an absolute localisation of the robotic team. Beside the discussion of the rather naive method directly using the GPS position of t...

This paper addresses the opportunities and challenges involved in applying natural language processing techniques to the control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The problem of controlling an unmanned aircraft via natural language inputs is formulated as a feedback control problem. Two implementations of such systems are described. The phraseology of the existing air traffic control language...

CESI has been working on an internal research and development program to address the issues of unmanned system’s collaboration using the simulation environment as a testbed. Traditional unmanned systems utilize swarm approaches, or intelligent agents with little concern for the human-systems and the ability to apply this to hundreds, and / or thousands of unmanned systems. The PI’s previous res...

This paper considers the problem of path planning for a team of unmanned aerial vehicles performing surveillance near a friendly base. The unmanned aerial vehicles do not possess sensors with automated target recognition capability and, thus, rely on communicating with unattended ground sensors placed on roads to detect and image potential intruders. The problem is motivated by persistent intel...

HELISCOPE is the name of a project support by MKE (Ministry of Knowledge & Economy) of Korea to develop flying-camera services that transmits the scene of a fire by an unmanned helicopter. In this paper, we introduce the design and implementation of the OFP (Operational Flight Program) for the unmanned helicopter’s navigation based on the well-known TMO scheme. Navigation of the unmanned helico...

We discuss the development, integration, simulation, and flight test of a manned vehicle UAV mission system in a partially-known environment. The full control system allows a manned aircraft to issue mission level commands to an autonomous aircraft in realtime. This system includes a Natural Language (NL) Interface to allow the manned and unmanned vehicle to communicate in languages understood ...

The future will provide an increasing number of autonomous unmanned systems; e.g. weapons and vehicles, to be deployed by the nation’s military. There are a large number of safety issues that such systems will pose, one such safety concern is the ability of the autonomous unmanned system to accurately identify environmental elements and make the appropriate decisions based upon the situation. H...

The development of unmanned crane is an important issue of Factory Automation in steel industry. This paper focus on unmanned crane for picking up coils on a trailer although positions and diameters of coils is not fixed. In order to pick up those coils, unmanned crane should know exact 3D coil position. Therefore, in order to find out exact 3D coil’s centers, this paper propose the system that...

Unmanned systems (UMSs) have been deployed to military and civilian operations. UMSs vary widely in their capabilities and purposes. It would be beneficial to have a set of widely recognized standard definitions on the capabilities of the UMSs. Efforts have begun in various organizations in defining autonomy levels for unmanned systems. As part of this ongoing research, we are attempting to def...

The emergence of various risks to global security and stability is a motivation to develop remote sensing and monitoring systems that can be deployed on Unmanned Vehicles (UxVs). This requires the development of robust autonomous control technologies that can reliably coordinate large numbers of networked heterogeneous systems cooperating on a common mission objective. This paper describes a pr...