Satellite remote sensing data that lacks spatial resolution and timeliness is of limited ability to access urban thermal environment on a micro scale. This paper presents an unmanned airship low-altitude thermal infrared remote sensing system (UALTIRSS), which is composed of an unmanned airship, an onboard control and navigation subsystem, a task subsystem, a communication subsystem, and a grou...

This paper presents the design and mathematical model of an innovative smart crane, CHAYA-SC, based on principle a cable-driven parallel manipulator, as well its stabilization. crane is mounted airship hold intended for handling at altitude. Our objective to precise light that can be used container loading or unloading, particularly in deep-sea ports. Thus, developed includes oscillations trans...

The cooperative scheduling problem on high-altitude airships for imaging observation tasks is discussed. A constraint programming model is established by analyzing the main constraints, which takes the maximum task benefit and the minimum cruising distance as two optimization objectives. The cooperative scheduling problem of high-altitude airships is converted into a main problem and a subprobl...

Robotic unmanned aerial vehicles have great potential as surveying and instrument deployment platforms in the exploration of planets and moons with an atmosphere. Among the various types of planetary aerovehicles proposed, lighter-than-atmosphere (LTA) systems are of particular interest because of their extended mission duration and long traverse capabilities. In this paper, we argue that the u...

APPROACH Our approach has been multifaceted. First, we have been utilizing data collected during the SAXON-FPN experiment to extract as much information as possible about microwave scattering from the sea surface and about the imaging of the sea surface by synthetic aperture radars (SAR). Second, we have adapted new techniques for obtaining wind, wave, and current information at sea, which we d...

There have been gradually increasing interests in the stratospheric airship (SSA) as a cost-effective alternative to earth orbit satellites for telecommunication and high-resolution observation. Lightweight high strength envelopes are keys design of SSAs it directly determines endurance flight performance loading deformation characteristics airship. Typical SSA envelope material is laminated fa...