NASA is investigating passive wireless sensor technology to reduce instrumentation mass and volume in ground testing, air flight, and space exploration applications. Vehicle health monitoring systems (VHMS) are desired on all aerospace programs to ensure the safety of the crew and the vehicles. Pervasive passive wireless sensor networks facilitate VHMS on aerospace vehicles. Future wireless sen...

In this paper, a new position feedback based formation control method for heterogeneous multi-robot teams is presented and evaluated. The formation behaviors are integrated with dynamic reference object based collaborative navigation and efficient obstacle avoidance to maintain and change formation real-time. This method is computationally efficient and easy to coordinate in heterogeneous syste...

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are predicted to change transportation; however, it is still difficult maintain robust situation awareness in a variety of driving situations. To enhance AV perception, methods integrate sensor data from the camera, radar, and LiDAR sensors have been proposed. However, due rigidity their fusion implementations, current techniques not sufficiently challenging scenarios ...

Abstract Ocean monitoring is an expensive and time consuming endeavor, but it can be made more efficient through the use of teams autonomous robots. In this paper, we present a system for identification tracking ocean fronts by coordinating sampling efforts heterogeneous team surface vehicles (ASVs) underwater (AUVs). The primary contributions study are (1) our algorithm performing coordination...

Climate change is a serious challenge of today. In order to reach the ambiguous mitigation scenarios for greenhouse gases, strong efforts are to be undertaken. Electric vehicles are seen as a potential mean to reduce emissions and energy import dependencies of most western societies. So far, the progress towards more electric vehicles in individual passenger transport is still slow. The objecti...

VANET is one of the most important parts in smart cities. However, heterogeneous network devices used by different vehicles make data exchange among vehicles become particularly difficult. To solve the problem, a distributed service sharing middleware for VANET called VssOSGi is proposed in the paper. In this middleware, various kinds of functions provided by sensing devices in vehicles are vir...

Future unmanned vehicles systems will invert the operator-to-vehicle ratio so that one operator controls a decentralized network of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles. This study examines the impact of allowing an operator to adjust the rate of prompts to view automation-generated plans on system performance and operator workload. Results showed that the majority of operators chose to adjust the r...

Mission Planning software uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) sources and dynamic aggregation of geo-referenced data to provide an information-rich context for human-directed creation of missions that are, for the most part, vehicle-independent. This requires a connection between the universal Mission Planner and an heterogeneous groups of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), payloads and ass...