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    Vision-augmented inertial navigation by sensor fusion for an autonomous rotorcraft vehicle

    Bottasso, Carlo L. / Leonello, Domenico | Tema Archive | 2009
    We describe a novel inertial navigation system based on measurementfusion which includes stereo-vision among its sensors. The vision ...

    On flight path control of an unmanned helicopter in forward flight using an optimal inner loop with body frame velocities

    Derrick, J. Bentron / Spires, J. Michael | Tema Archive | 2009
    This paper presents the design of an inner-loop state-space control system for an unmanned helicopter in forward flight. It is assumed that ...

    Experiments on the optimization of mav-scale cycloidal rotor characteristics towards improving their aerodynamic performance

    Benedict, Moble / Ramasamy, Manikandan / Chopra, Inderjit et al. | Tema Archive | 2009
    studies were conducted to determine the effects of rotational speed, the amplitude of the blade pitch angle, and the number of blades on cycloidal ...

    Numerical study of the effects of leading and trailing edge geometries and planform on micro hovering rotor

    Lakshminarayan, Vinod K. / Baeder, James D. | Tema Archive | 2009
    geometries and planform on micro hovering rotor. The current work serves as a step towards using computational methodology to develop a highly ...

    Understanding insect-based flapping flight from a micro air vehicle perspective

    Seshadri, Pranay / Benedict, Moble / Chopra, Inderjit | Tema Archive | 2009
    The dependence of the performance of insect-based flapping wings, on a few critical parameters such as the wing shape, stiffness and wing ...

    Local terrain mapping for obstacle avoidance using monocular vision

    Marlow, Sean Quinn / Langelaan, Jack W. | Tema Archive | 2009
    We present a method for navigation of a small unmanned rotorcraft through an unsurveyed environment consisting of forest and urban canyons ...

    Numerical methods for the aeromechanical design of flapping wing hovering MAV

    Whitehouse, G.R. / Quackenbush, T.R. / Boschtisch, A.H. et al. | Tema Archive | 2009
    While the majority of VTOL UAV work has focused on rotary wing concepts, important roles are possible for flapping wing vehicles ...

    Development of closed loop flight control for a shrouded rotor micro air vehicle with anti-torque vanes

    Hrishikeshavan, Vikram / Chopra, Inderjit | Tema Archive | 2009
    designed modularly to enable qualitative studies on the differences in flight stability between a shrouded and unshrouded rotor MAV while ...