A Survey on Applications of Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems for Offshore Wind Farms

R Sasse, CA Hirst, E Frew… - Wind Energy Science …, 2023 - wes.copernicus.org
Offshore wind farms are attractive energy sources due to the abundancy of wind resources
close to population centers. Nevertheless, offshore locations present unique challenges for …

Lessons from robot‐assisted disaster response deployments by the German Rescue Robotics Center task force

H Surmann, K Daun, M Schnaubelt… - Journal of Field …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Earthquakes, fire, and floods often cause structural collapses of buildings. However, the
inspection of such damaged buildings poses a high risk for emergency forces or is even …

Human-centered autonomy for UAS target search

HM Ray, Z Laouar, Z Sunberg… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current methods of deploying robots that operate in dynamic, uncertain environments, such
as Uncrewed Aerial Systems in search & rescue missions, require nearly continuous human …

Human-Centered Autonomy for Autonomous sUAS Target Searching

HM Ray, Z Laouar, Z Sunberg, N Ahmed - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.06395, 2023 - arxiv.org
Deploying robots that operate in dynamic, uncertain environments, such as Uncrewed Aerial
Systems in search\& rescue missions, require nearly continuous human supervision for …

HARPS: An Online POMDP Framework for Human-Assisted Robotic Planning and Sensing

L Burks, HM Ray, J McGinley… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability of autonomous robots to model, communicate, and act on semantic “soft data”
remains challenging. The human-assisted robotic planning and sensing (HARPS) …

FALCO: Flight and AI-Enabled Coordination and Object-detection for Search and Rescue Missions

A Diallo, HM Ray, NR Ahmed - AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Existing techniques of implementing computer vision algorithms on robotic platforms
operating in search-and-rescue missions do not consider environment conditions or the …

Learning-Enhanced Nonlinear Model Predictive Guidance for Fixed-Wing Small Uncrewed Aircraft

CA Hirst - 2024 - search.proquest.com
This work presents a novel path-following guidance algorithm for fixed-wing uncrewed
aircraft systems (FW-sUAS). The algorithm aims to provide fast, precise guidance over …

Developing Modular Autonomous Capabilities for sVAS Operations

K Quigley, V Goodwin, L Alvarez, J Yao… - 2023 IEEE Aerospace …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small teams in the field can benefit from the ca-pabilities provided by small Uncrewed Aerial
Systems (sUAS) for missions such as reconnaissance, hostile attribution, remote …

Revealing and Mitigating Harmful Assumptions and Behaviors in Human-Autonomy Teaming

CT Chang - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Human-autonomy teaming in complex environments continues to evolve with technological
innovations like mixed reality and rapidly improving large language models. With this …

Optimizing UAV Navigation: A Particle Swarm Optimization Approach for Path Planning in 3D Environments

G Airlangga - Buletin Ilmiah Sarjana Teknik Elektro, 2023 - journal2.uad.ac.id
This study explores the application of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) in Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle (UAV) path planning within a simulated three-dimensional environment …