Browsing by Subject "Drone aircraft"

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  • A comprehensive analysis of a Light-UAVS design 

    Olivart Llop, Josep Miquel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Politecnico di Torino, 2008)
    Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
    Restricted access - confidentiality agreement

  • Adaptive nonlinear guidance law using neural networks applied to a quadrotor 

    Rubí Perelló, Bartomeu; Morcego Seix, Bernardo; Pérez Magrané, Ramon (2019)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The NonLinear Guidance Law (NLGL) is a geometric algorithm commonly employed to solve the path following problem on different unmanned vehicles. NLGL is simple (does no depend on the model of the vehicle), effective and ...

  • A distributed man-machine dispatching architecture for emergency operations based on 3GPP mission critical services 

    Viamonte Solé, David; Calveras Augé, Anna M. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-12-16)
    Article
    Open Access
    With 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 ...

  • Advances in UAS for forest fire fighting 

    Pastor Llorens, Enric; Barrado Muxí, Cristina; López, Juan; Prats Menéndez, Xavier; Ramírez Alcántara, Jorge; Royo Chic, Pablo; Santamaria Barnadas, Eduard (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2007)
    Conference report
    Open Access

  • Aerodynamics of Rotor in Confined ENvironment (ARChEaN) 

    García Magaña, Cristian (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-06-11)
    Bachelor thesis
    Restricted access - confidentiality agreement

  • Aerodynamics, stability and control computational analysis for UAVs 

    Pérez Arroyo, Carlos; Sintes Arroyo, Pol (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2007-07-24)
    Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
    Open Access
    L’objectiu d’aquest projecte és l’estudi aerodinàmic d’un UAV (vehicle aeri no tripulat). Aquest tipus de aeronaus són utilitzades comunament en molts països per desenvolupar tasques com vigilància, recerca o combat degut ...

  • A hardware/software architecture for UAV payload and mission control 

    Pastor Llorens, Enric; López Rubio, Juan; Royo Chic, Pablo (2006)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    This 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 ...

  • Aiding a SLAM system with an IMU sensor 

    Ibáñez Cuadal, Carlos (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-03-29)
    Bachelor thesis
    Restricted access - author's decision
    Covenantee:  Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
    This project consists of aid an existing SLAM system by developing and implementing a motion estimator based on the Inertial measurements of a VI-sensor in the SLAM pipeline. This entire project has been carried out at ...

  • Air traffic deconfliction using sum coloring 

    Duchamp, Vincent; Josefsson, Billy; Polishchuk, Tatiana; Polishchuk, Valentin; Sáez García, Raúl; Wiren, Richard (2019)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    This paper studies strategic conflict resolution for air traffic based on sum coloring. We consider two application scenarios: manned and unmanned air traffic, with similar targets: to improve efficiency of operations and ...

  • A macroscopic performance analysis of NASA’s northrop grumman RQ-4A 

    Pastor Llorens, Enric; Pérez Batlle, Marcos; Barrado Muxí, Cristina; Royo Chic, Pablo; Cuadrado Santolaria, Raúl (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2018-01-10)
    Article
    Open Access
    This 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 methodology for measuring the impact on flight inefficiency of future RPAS operations 

    Pérez Batlle, Marcos; Tadeo, Carlos; Pastor Llorens, Enric (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
    Conference report
    Restricted access - publisher's policy
    This 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 

    López, Juan; Royo Chic, Pablo; Pastor Llorens, Enric; Barrado Muxí, Cristina; Santamaria Barnadas, Eduard (Uiversity of Irvine, 2007-11)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    An 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. ...

  • Análisis de vulnerabilidades en sistemas de drones 

    Wenceslao Casanovas, Xavier (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-09-15)
    Bachelor thesis
    Open Access
    We are currently living a transition period, in the aeronautical world drone related technologies are recently improving and extending, growing exponentially due to expenses reductions and social mass approval. Nowadays, ...

  • Analysis of the impact of RPAS integration into the flight efficiency of surrounding traffic 

    Tadeo Galvez, Carlos (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015-05-29)
    Bachelor thesis
    Open Access
    This work has assessed the impact of the introduction of a Remotely-Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) in non-segregated airspace using the flight inefficiency concept with flight traffic data. Three different cases have been ...

  • Analysis of the UAS regulatory frame for Mapkite, a new drone-based concept for geo-data adquisition 

    Rabella Sueiras, Marc (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-07-20)
    Master thesis
    Open Access
    This document contains, on the one hand, an exhaustive study of the drones' legal framework with a focus on the GeoNumerics' project named mapKITE. mapKITE is a patented application with some special characteristics in ...

  • An architecture for the seamless integration of UAS 

    Pastor Llorens, Enric; Barrado Muxí, Cristina; López Rubio, Juan; Royo Chic, Pablo; Santamaria Barnadas, Eduard; Prats Menéndez, Xavier (2009)
    Conference lecture
    Restricted access - publisher's policy

  • An architecture to automate UAS operations in non-segregated airspace 

    Pastor Llorens, Enric; Royo Chic, Pablo; Santamaria Barnadas, Eduard; Pérez Batlle, Marcos; Barrado Muxí, Cristina; Prats Menéndez, Xavier (2011)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Technology evolution in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) will affect the Air Traffic Management (ATM) performance regarding to new military and civil applications. UAS, as new airspace users, will represent new ...

  • An Assessment for UAS Traffic Awareness Operations 

    Pastor Llorens, Enric; Prats Menéndez, Xavier; Delgado Muñoz, Luis (2010)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Technology evolution in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) will affect the Air Traffic Management (ATM) performance regarding to new military and civil applications. UAS, as new airspace users, will represent ...

  • An electromagnetic interference reduction check list for unmanned aircraft system 

    Tristancho Martínez, Joshua; Quílez Figuerola, Marcos; Pastor Llorens, Enric (2010)
    Conference report
    Restricted access - publisher's policy

  • A new technique based on mini-UAS for estimating water and bottom radiance contributions in optically shallow waters 

    Montes Hugo, J. M.; Barrado Muxí, Cristina; Pastor Llorens, Enric (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), 2015)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The 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 ...