Wind measurement and simulation techniques in multi-rotor small unmanned aerial vehicles

P Abichandani, D Lobo, G Ford, D Bucci, M Kam - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wind disturbance presents a formidable challenge to the flight performance of multi-rotor
small unmanned aerial vehicles (sUAVs). This paper presents a comprehensive review of …

Cvar-based flight energy risk assessment for multirotor uavs using a deep energy model

A Choudhry, B Moon, J Patrikar… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy management is a critical aspect of risk assessment for Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle
(UAV) flights, as a depleted battery during a flight brings almost guaranteed vehicle damage …

Cooperative aerial manipulation with decentralized adaptive force-consensus control

S Thapa, H Bai, JÁ Acosta - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, we consider multiple quacopter aerial robots and develop a decentralized
adaptive controller to cooperatively manipulate a payload. We assume that the mass of the …

Transition in atmospheric boundary layer turbulence structure from neutral to convective, and large-scale rolls

B Jayaraman, JG Brasseur - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
The three-dimensional turbulence structure of the canonical daytime atmospheric boundary
layer (ABL) reflects the balance between shear and buoyancy turbulence production …

On data-driven sparse sensing and linear estimation of fluid flows

B Jayaraman, SMAA Mamun - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The reconstruction of fine-scale information from sparse data measured at irregular locations
is often needed in many diverse applications, including numerous instances of practical fluid …

Estimating wind velocity with a neural network using quadcopter trajectories

S Allison, H Bai, B Jayaraman - AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
In this paper, we examine the viability of using long short-term memory neural networks as a
tool to estimate wind velocity from quadcopter trajectory information, such as position and …

Investigation of wind effect on different quadrotors

H Ercan, H Ulucan, MS Can - Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Although windy weather conditions have a significant effect on the flight safety and
stability of any aircraft, the fact that quadrotors are lighter than other aircraft makes them …

Experimental observations of the boundary layer in varying topography with unmanned aircraft

VA Natalie, JD Jacob - AIAA Aviation 2019 Forum, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
This research relates topography, mapped through small unmanned aerial system remote
sensing, with boundary layer measurements including windspeed, pressure, temperature …

Interaction of Wind Farms with Offshore Low-level Jets Using Multiscale Large-Eddy Simulations

B Jayaraman, T Chatterjee, EW Quon… - AIAA SCITECH 2023 …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-1736. vid deling to improve
simulation-driven estimation of performance and reliability metrics. In this work, we build on …

[PDF][PDF] Susceptibility of quadcopter flight to turbulence

J Solberg - 2018 - ecommons.cornell.edu
Quadcopters are used in a wide variety of applications, almost all of which require flying in
turbulent conditions. Especially for small quadcopters, whose velocities are of the same …