6 papers
Affine Transformable Unmanned Ground Vehicle
Aron Mathias, Mohammad Ghufran, Jack Hughes +1
This paper develops the proof of concept for a novel affine transformable unmanned ground vehicle (ATUGV) with the capability of safe and aggressive deformation while carrying mult…
VR-Based Control of Multi-Copter Operation
Jack T. Hughes, Garegin Mazmanyan, Mohammad Ghufran +1
We present a VR-based teleoperation system for multirotor flight that renders a third-person view (TPV) of the vehicle together with a live 3D reconstruction of its surroundings. T…
Quadcopter Team Configurable Motion Guided by a Quadruped
Mohammad Ghufran, Sourish Tetakayala, Jack Hughes +2
The paper focuses on modeling and experimental evaluation of a quadcopter team configurable coordination guided by a single quadruped robot. We consider the quadcopter team as part…
Safe Human-UAS Collaboration Abstraction
Hossein Rastgoftar
This paper studies the problem of safe humanuncrewed aerial system (UAS) collaboration in a shared work environment. By considering human and UAS as co-workers, we use Petri Nets t…
Online Equitable Ride-sharing Car Distribution in a Congested Traffic
Hossein Rastgoftar
The usability of ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft has been considerably improved by advancements in cellular communications. Such a tech-driven transportation system can re…
Sandwich Approach for Motion Planning and Control
Mohamadreza Ramezani, Hossein Rastgoftar
This paper develops a new approach for robot motion planning and control in obstacle-laden environments that is inspired by fundamentals of fluid mechanics. For motion planning, we…