We have developed an autonomous, digging, Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) for sensor emplacement. A key challenge is quickly determining whether or not a particular digging activity will lead to successful emplacement, thereby allowing the system to potentially try another location. We have designed a first-of-its-kind decision-making algorithm using a Markov Decision Process to autonomously monitor the activity of a digging UAS activity to quickly decide if success is likely. Further, we demonstrate through many experimental trials that our method outperforms other decision-making methods with an overall success rate of 82.5%.


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    Title :

    Predicting Digging Success for Unmanned Aircraft System Sensor Emplacement


    Additional title:

    Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Symposium on Experimental Robotics ; 2018 ; Buenos Aires, Argentina November 05, 2018 - November 08, 2018



    Publication date :

    2020-01-23


    Size :

    12 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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