Coverage path planning with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a core task for many services and applications including search rescue, precision agriculture, infrastructure inspection surveillance. This work proposes an integrated guidance gimbal control coverage (CPP) approach, in which the mobility inputs of autonomous UAV agent are jointly controlled optimized to achieve full given object in...

Low gravity astronaut extravehicular activity (EVA) missions using a maneuvering Jetpack and robotic servicing and assembly missions could benefit from spacecraft systems capable of maintaining pointing stability during critical operations. The addition of single-gimbal control moment gyroscopes (CMGs) to the attitude control system of these spacecraft could substantially improve the stability ...

In this paper, a 395-gram micro flying robot equipped with an insect-inspired visual system is presented. The robot’s visual system was designed to make it avoid both ground and lateral obstacles, using optic flow-based regulation principles. The quadrotor is an open-hardware X4-MaG drone with an active gimbal system based on a pair of serial servo motors, which stabilizes 8 retinas dedicated t...

Unmanned aerial systems (UASs), frequently referred to as 'drones', have become more common and affordable and are a promising tool for collecting data on free-ranging wild animals. We used a Phantom-2 UAS equipped with a gimbal-mounted camera to estimate position, velocity and acceleration of a subject on the ground moving through a grid of GPS surveyed ground control points (area ∼1200 m(2))....