Remote sensing has traditionally be done with satellites and manned aircraft. While these
methods can yield useful scientific data, satellites and manned aircraft have limitations in …

This paper describes the work done by the Autonomous Systems Lab of Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) on the global design of an unmanned solar …

Summary The Autonomous Systems Lab of EPFL 3 is developing, within the framework of
an ESA program, an ultra-lightweight solar autonomous model airplane called Sky-Sailor …

Our work proposes a vision-based stabilization and output tracking control method for a
model helicopter. This is a part of our effort to produce a rotorcraft based autonomous …

This paper describes the results of an on-going effort at West Virginia University (WVU) and
University of Perugia (Italy) focused on the analysis and design of control and modeling …

A mathematical model for the dynamic characterization of a two-degree-of-freedom (2 DOF)
twin-rotor multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system (TRMS) in hover is extracted using a black …

We describe the interface between a real-time resource allocation system with an AI planner
in order to create fault-tolerant plans that are guaranteed to execute in hard real-time. The …

Abstract On April 6, 2009, an earthquake hit the historic center of L'Aquila city, hundreds of
victims, thousands of collapses. During the post-emergency a continuous monitoring of all …

Small low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide greater possibilities for personal
scientific research than other conventional platforms such as satellites or manned aircraft. In …

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effectiveness θq, bias= bias term in pitch rate signal θq, el= elevator pitch rate effectiveness …