The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in modern military operations for reconnaissance and other missions continues to grow. UAV systems using remote control guidance are limited in range and subject to Electronic Warfare concerns. Guidance Systems using only Global Positioning Service (GPS) or an Inertial Navigation System (INS) are limited to a pre-programmed route of flight. A vision guidance system that can control the UAV over an arbitrary course is not subject to these limitations. This thesis uses classical control methods to develop and test an autonomous vision controller for the FOG-R UAV (FROG). First, a computer model of the camera output for a flight that tracks a river is made to develop the controller and to test it in nonlinear simulation. Finally, the complete system is flight tested on the FROG UAV. The design and test equipment include a highly modified FOG-R UAV from the U.S. Army, the MATRIXx Product Family of software tools developed by Integrated Systems, Inc., and a Ground Station built at NPS from commercially available computer and communication equipment.
Vision Guidance Controller for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
1998
94 pages
Report
No indication
English
Navigation Systems , Unmanned Spacecraft , Military operations , Unmanned , Guidance , Computer programs , Computerized simulation , Output , Control , Simulation , Electronic warfare , Integrated systems , Aircraft , Communication equipment , Theses , Test equipment , Nonlinear systems , Global positioning system , Cameras , Self operation , Vision , Reconnaissance , Remote control , Ground stations , Uavs(Unmanned aerial vehicles)
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