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Towards a New Paradigm of UAV Safety
Juan-Pablo Afman, Laurent Ciarletta, Eric Feron +3
With the rising popularity of UAVs in the civilian world, we are currently witnessing and paradim shift in terms of operational safety of flying vehicles. Safe and ubiquitous human…
Maneuver Regulation for Accelerating Bodies in Atmospheric Environments
Juan-Pablo Afman, Eric Feron, John Hauser
In order to address the need for an affordable reduced gravity test platform, this work focuses on the analysis and implementation of atmospheric acceleration tracking with an auto…
Motion Rectification for an Homeostasis-Enabling Wheel
Juan-Pablo Afman, Mark Mote, Eric Feron
A wheel that is capable of producing thrust and maintaining vehicle internal integrity is presented. The wheel can be seen as an organic extension to the central unit (eg the vehic…
On the Design and Optimization of an Autonomous Microgravity Enabling Aerial Robot
Juan-Pablo Afman, John Franklin, Mark L. Mote +2
This paper describes the process and challenges behind the design and development of a micro-gravity enabling aerial robot. The vehicle, designed to provide at minimum 4 seconds of…
A Framework for Collision-Tolerant Optimal Trajectory Planning of Autonomous Vehicles
Mark L. Mote, Juan-Pablo Afman, Eric Feron
Collision-tolerant trajectory planning is the consideration that collisions, if they are planned appropriately, enable more effective path planning for robots capable of handling t…