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Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory Aeronautics & Astronautics
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Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory Aeronautics & Astronautics Research and Development at the Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory University of Washington Seattle, WA Guggenheim 109, AERB 214 (206) 543-7748 http://www.aa.washington.edu/research/afsl
Coordination of Heterogeneous Vehicles Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory Aeronautics & Astronautics Pattern hold/Team assembly Transition Obstacle/Threat Avoidance Base Searching/Target ID Coordination w/ surface vehicles University of Washington
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Coordination and Communication with Autonomous Surface Vehicles
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At strategic level, UAVs can provide improved target tasking and routing information to surface vehicles Autonomous path planning for surface vehicles through non structured environments enhanced by UAV information At tactical level, UAVs can track evasive targets and update world estimates
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Goals and Advantages
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Goals Use multiple low-cost UAVs to cooperatively track targets Ability to mark targets, report to central database, report to deployed surface vehicles Improve quality and quantity of ISR data and battlefield awareness Advantages Tracking targets with tactical UAVs can require high operator workload Evasive targets could fool a single UAV
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Simulation Visualization
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Autonomous Orbit Coordination for Multiple UAVs
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Simulation Results
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Effects of Radius and Airspeed Manipulation
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Simulation Results
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Effects of Radius and Airspeed Manipulation
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Orbit Coordination
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Maintains relative phase angle between two UAVs in presence of disturbance Nonlinear issues dealing with asymmetry of varying orbits Joint effort between UW, Cornell, U of Calgary, and The Insitu Group
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Contact Us
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Investigators Dr. Rolf Rysdyk Dr. Uy-Loi Ly Dr. Juris Vagners Dr. Kristi Morgansen Dr. Anawat Pongpunwattana
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Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory Guggenheim 109 (206) 543-7748 http://www.aa.washington.edu/research/afsl Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Laboratory AERB 120 (206) 685-1530 http://vger.aa.washington.edu
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