no code implementations • 26 Feb 2024 • Artur Wolek, James McMahon
A Monte Carlo simulation with randomized flow conditions is used to evaluate the batch estimation methods while varying the measurement noise of the data and the interval of unique heading traversed during the maneuver.
no code implementations • 26 Feb 2024 • Artur Wolek
This paper considers the problem of planning a path for a single underwater cooperative navigation aid (CNA) vehicle to intermittently aid a set of N agents to minimize average navigation uncertainty.
no code implementations • 20 Feb 2024 • Collin Hague, Nick Kakavitsas, Jincheng Zhang, Chris Beam, Andrew Willis, Artur Wolek
This paper describes the hardware design and flight demonstration of a small quadrotor with imaging sensors for urban mapping, hazard avoidance, and target tracking research.
no code implementations • 5 Feb 2024 • Andrew Willis, Collin Hague, Artur Wolek, Kevin Brink
UAV missions often require specific geometric constraints to be satisfied between ground locations and the vehicle location.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2024 • Nicholas Kakavitsas, Artur Wolek
A minimum-time optimal control problem is formulated for the quadrotor to take off and reach a desired vertical-plane position in the presence of the predicted wind-field.
no code implementations • 15 Jan 2024 • Chris Beam, Jincheng Zhang, Nicholas Kakavitsas, Collin Hague, Artur Wolek, Andrew Willis
The impact of this can be significant, potentially allowing expansive virtual testing of robotic systems at specific deployment locations to develop solutions that are tailored to the environment and potentially outperforming solutions meant to work in completely generic environments.
no code implementations • 12 Jan 2024 • Jincheng Zhang, Artur Wolek, Andrew R. Willis
Results indicate that for UAVs with restrictive computing resources, DSOL is the best option.
1 code implementation • 12 Jan 2023 • Collin Hague, Andrew Willis, Dipankar Maity, Artur Wolek
Four sampling algorithms are proposed for sampling vehicle configurations within each visibility volume to define vertices of the underlying DTSPN.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2017 • James McMahon, Harun Yetkin, Artur Wolek, Zachary Waters, Dan Stilwell
We address the challenge of computing search paths in real-time for subsea applications where the goal is to locate an unknown number of targets on the seafloor.