Browsing by Subject "Drone aircraft"
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A 3D model for building condition assessment
(2020)
Conference report
Open AccessThe aim of the paper is to analyze practical aspects with use of 3D Model for accurate building condition assessment. Use of fully interactive visualization methods from a technical condition assessment platform going to ... -
A comprehensive analysis of a Light-UAVS design
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Politecnico di Torino, 2008)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
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A deep reinforcement learning approach for path following on a quadrotor
(2020)
Conference report
Open AccessThis paper proposes the Deep Deterministic Policy Grandient (DDPG) reinforcement learning algorithm to solve the path following problem in a quadrotor vehicle. This agent is implemented using a separated control and guidance ... -
A distributed man-machine dispatching architecture for emergency operations based on 3GPP mission critical services
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-12-16)
Article
Open AccessWith the number of non-human devices expected to significantly overtake human users of LTE networks, it is no surprise that First Responders in Mission Critical operations will need to interact with an increasing number ... -
A fully interactive visualization method for building condition assessment
(2019)
Conference report
Open AccessThe aim of the paper is to introduce a tool for the accurate assessment of the technical condition of buildings. The proposed methodology is becoming an efficient strategy for the massive inspection of building stocks, in ... -
A fully interactive visualization method for building condition assessment
(Institute of Physics (IOP), 2019-09)
Article
Open AccessThe aim of the paper is to introduce a tool for the accurate assessment of the technical condition of buildings. The proposed methodology is becoming an efficient strategy for the massive inspection of building stocks, in ... -
A hardware/software architecture for UAV payload and mission control
(2006)
Conference report
Open AccessThis paper presents an embedded hardware/software architecture specially designed to be applied on mini/micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). An UAV is low-cost non-piloted airplane designed to operate in D-cube ... -
A macroscopic performance analysis of NASA’s northrop grumman RQ-4A
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2018-01-10)
Article
Open AccessThis paper presents the process of identification, from a macroscopic point of view, of the Northrop Grumman RQ-4A Global Hawk Remote-Piloted Aircraft System from real, but limited flight information. Performance parameters ... -
A Method to determine secondary codes and carrier phases of short snapshot signals
(2022-12)
Article
Open AccessRecently, the Snapshot Real-Time Kinematic (SRTK) technique was demonstrated, which aims at achieving high accuracy navigation solutions with a very short signal collection. The main challenge in implementing SRTK is the ... -
A methodology for measuring the impact on flight inefficiency of future RPAS operations
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper presents a simple methodology for measuring the impact on flight inefficiency of future Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) operations. State-of-the-art inefficiency metrics have been selected and adapted ... -
A Middleware architecture for Unmanned Aircraft Avionics
(Uiversity of Irvine, 2007-11)
Conference report
Open AccessAn Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is a non-piloted airplane designed to operate in dangerous and repetitive situations. With the advent of UAV's civil applications, UAVs are emerging as a valid option in commercial scenarios. ... -
A multi-project student space association
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
Conference lecture
Open AccessThe aerospace sector has always been a challenge. The complex nature of the field requires for talented, skilful engineers. And while the university does great on the development of the theoretical background, it barely ... -
A multi-Site NFV testbed for experimentation with SUAV-based 5G vertical services
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-06-12)
Article
Open AccessWith the advent of 5G technologies, vertical markets have been placed at the forefront, as fundamental drivers and adopters of technical developments and new business models. Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (SUAVs) are ... -
A new technique based on mini-UAS for estimating water and bottom radiance contributions in optically shallow waters
(International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), 2015)
Conference report
Open AccessThe mapping of nearshore bathymetry based on spaceborne radiometers is commonly used for QC ocean colour products in littoral waters. However, the accuracy of these estimates is relatively poor with respect to those derived ... -
A project-oriented course on guidance and control of autonomous aerial vehicles
(Elsevier, 2020)
Conference report
Open AccessIn this paper, a project oriented course on guidance and control of autonomous aerial vehicles (UAVs) is presented. The paper describes the di erent modules of the course and how they are addressed using the project oriented ... -
A service-constrained positioning strategy for an autonomous fleet of airborne base stations
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2018-10)
Article
Open AccessThis paper proposes a positioning strategy for a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) airlifting wireless base stations driven by communication constraints. First, two schedulers that model the distribution of resources ... -
A simheuristic for the unmanned aerial vehicle surveillance-routing problem with stochastic travel times and reliability considerations
(2019)
Conference report
Open AccessIn the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveillance-routing problem, a limited fleet of UAVs with driving-range limitations have to visit a series of target zones in order to complete a monitoring operation. This operation ... -
A Survey of path following control strategies for UAVs focused on quadrotors
(2019-11-09)
Article
Open AccessThe trajectory control problem, defined as making a vehicle follow a pre-established path in space, can be solved by means of trajectory tracking or path following. In the trajectory tracking problem a timed reference ... -
A survey of propagation channel modelling for UAV communications
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-07)
Bachelor thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: Universitetet i LinköpingThe purpose of this project is to make a survey about channel propagation models in Air to Ground communications, also found in low altitude Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles links. The project consists on gathering the literature ... -
A telemetry modeling for intelligent UAV monitoring
(2009-10-19)
Conference report
Open AccessAn Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, UAV for short, is able to fly autonomously during all phases of flight, but has to be monitored from an operator station. In this article a better avionic system is proposed to optimize this ...
