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Unmanned aerial vehicles have received increased attention in the last decade due to their versatility, as well as the availability of inexpensive sensors (e.g. GPS, IMU) for their navigation and control. Multirotor vehicles, specifically quadrotors, have formed a fast growing field in robotics, with the range of applications spanning from

Unmanned aerial vehicles have received increased attention in the last decade due to their versatility, as well as the availability of inexpensive sensors (e.g. GPS, IMU) for their navigation and control. Multirotor vehicles, specifically quadrotors, have formed a fast growing field in robotics, with the range of applications spanning from surveil- lance and reconnaissance to agriculture and large area mapping. Although in most applications single quadrotors are used, there is an increasing interest in architectures controlling multiple quadrotors executing a collaborative task. This thesis introduces a new concept of control involving more than one quadrotors, according to which two quadrotors can be physically coupled in mid-flight. This concept equips the quadro- tors with new capabilities, e.g. increased payload or pursuit and capturing of other quadrotors. A comprehensive simulation of the approach is built to simulate coupled quadrotors. The dynamics and modeling of the coupled system is presented together with a discussion regarding the coupling mechanism, impact modeling and additional considerations that have been investigated. Simulation results are presented for cases of static coupling as well as enemy quadrotor pursuit and capture, together with an analysis of control methodology and gain tuning. Practical implementations are introduced as results show the feasibility of this design.
ContributorsLarsson, Daniel (Author) / Artemiadis, Panagiotis (Thesis advisor) / Marvi, Hamidreza (Committee member) / Berman, Spring (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2016
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There has been a vast increase in applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in civilian domains. To operate in the civilian airspace, a UAV must be able to sense and avoid both static and moving obstacles for flight safety. While indoor and low-altitude environments are mainly occupied by static obstacles,

There has been a vast increase in applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in civilian domains. To operate in the civilian airspace, a UAV must be able to sense and avoid both static and moving obstacles for flight safety. While indoor and low-altitude environments are mainly occupied by static obstacles, risks in space of higher altitude primarily come from moving obstacles such as other aircraft or flying vehicles in the airspace. Therefore, the ability to avoid moving obstacles becomes a necessity

for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Towards enabling a UAV to autonomously sense and avoid moving obstacles, this thesis makes the following contributions. Initially, an image-based reactive motion planner is developed for a quadrotor to avoid a fast approaching obstacle. Furthermore, A Dubin’s curve based geometry method is developed as a global path planner for a fixed-wing UAV to avoid collisions with aircraft. The image-based method is unable to produce an optimal path and the geometry method uses a simplified UAV model. To compensate

these two disadvantages, a series of algorithms built upon the Closed-Loop Rapid Exploratory Random Tree are developed as global path planners to generate collision avoidance paths in real time. The algorithms are validated in Software-In-the-Loop (SITL) and Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) simulations using a fixed-wing UAV model and in real flight experiments using quadrotors. It is observed that the algorithm enables a UAV to avoid moving obstacles approaching to it with different directions and speeds.
ContributorsLin, Yucong (Author) / Saripalli, Srikanth (Thesis advisor) / Scowen, Paul (Committee member) / Fainekos, Georgios (Committee member) / Thangavelautham, Jekanthan (Committee member) / Youngbull, Cody (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2015
ContributorsVeal, Sherry (Performer) / Hakes, Roy (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1994-04-19
ContributorsBrookens, Karen (Performer) / Novak, Gail (Pianist) (Performer) / Leavitt, LaReita (Performer) / O'Donin, Shelly (Performer) / Stefan, Ted (Performer) / Reber, Margaret (Performer) / Childs, Linda (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1995-02-09
ContributorsWhelton, Kama Marie (Performer) / Dahnad, Mamak (Performer) / Dunn, Steve (Performer) / Hugl-Mohr, Klaus (Performer) / Lin, Tsushin (Performer) / Maben, Elizabeth B. (Performer) / McDougall, Kathryn (Performer) / Preiser, David (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1996-04-27
ContributorsTralongo, Victoria (Performer) / Baker, Bryan (Performer) / Reber, Margaret (Performer) / Jackson, Nicole (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1993-04-09
ContributorsPickle, D. Laureen (Performer) / Thomas, David M (Performer) / Novak, Gail (Pianist) (Performer) / Preiser, David (Performer) / Roueche, Michelle (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1996-04-01
ContributorsOh, Mija (Performer) / Hakes, Roy (Performer) / Reber, William (Performer) / Koonce, Frank (Performer) / Reber, Margaret (Performer) / Flegg, Lynne Marie (Performer) / Greenup, Garth (Performer) / Kim, Doosook (Performer) / Hlavenka, Dasha (Performer) / Hoxie, Jonathan (Performer) / Jackson, Nicole (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1993-04-02
ContributorsKim, Seung Hee (Performer) / Baker, Bryan (Performer) / Kim, Doosook (Performer) / Jackson, Nicole (Performer) / Mattson, Sheri (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1992-09-15
ContributorsJensen, Kristin (Performer) / Jiang, Qing (Performer) / Frank, Elijah (Performer) / Mills, Robert (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2004-11-18