Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego (SSC San Diego) has developed an unmanned vehicle and sensor operator control interface capable of simultaneously controlling and monitoring multiple sets of heterogeneous systems. The modularity, scalability and flexible user interface of the Multi-robot Operator Control Unit (MOCU) accommodates a wide range of vehicles and sensors in varying m...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) became a technology that have attracted considerable interest in the commercial markets for the military and civilian uses, such as surveillance and reconnaissance, aerial surveys for natural sources, traffic monitoring, early forest fire detection etc. This paper deals with Nonlinear and Model Predictive Control (MPC) of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) flying in ...

In April 2006, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle crashed near Nogales, Arizona. This incident is of interest because it triggered one of the most sustained studies into the causes of failure involving such a vehicle. The National Transportation Safety Board together with the US Customs and Border Protection agency under the Department of Homeland Security worked to identify lessons learned from this m...

This paper provides a practical framework for planning and control of formations of multiple unmanned ground vehicles to traverse between goal points in a dynamic environment. This framework allows on-line planning of the formation paths using search algorithm based on the current sensor data. The formation is allowed to dynamically change in order to avoid obstacles in the environment while mi...

Coordinated Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

This paper reflects the state of art in the field of human factors for unmanned aerial vehicles. It describes the GEDIS-UAV guide, which is a modification of the GEDIS guide. It also shows the evaluation of the Sky-eye project graphical user interface as an example of the methodology. The analysis and evaluation method reflected in this paper may be used to improve the graphical user interface ...

This paper proposes the result of hardware in the loop simulation (HILS) for performance evaluation about a small attitude heading reference system (AHRS) based micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) suitable for small unmanned underwater vehicle. Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) have many applications in scientific, military, and commercial area due to its autonomy and the navigation system ...

The main subject of this paper is dealt with sensor fusion analysis for the tele operating unmanned vehicle. The whole system target is studied in context of motor control system, algorithms for the high level control of tele operating unmanned vehicle and integration with driving simulator. The master system has host computer and simulator and slave system is equipped with electronic vehicle s...

In the future, unmanned platforms will gain decision-making intelligence that enables them to autonomously operate in clusters to perform collaborative tasks. For successful field deployment of unmanned systems, operators will need confidence in artificial decision-making in uncertain environments. Adjustable autonomy technologies, concepts, and simulation environments to evaluate teaming behav...

In order to evaluate the autonomy levels of Unmanned Platforms, A new hierarchical model for autonomy levels of unmanned platforms and a new evaluation method are provided. Firstly, human interface, situational awareness, environmental adaptation and decision-making of an unmanned platform are determined as four indicators applied to evaluate the autonomy levels. Secondly, evaluation method is ...