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The Michigan Robotics Undergraduate Curriculum: Defining the Discipline of Robotics for Equity and Excellence
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Jessy Grizzle, Ella Atkins +6
The Robotics Major at the University of Michigan was successfully launched in the 2022-23 academic year as an innovative step forward to better serve students, our communities, and…
Investigation of risk-aware MDP and POMDP contingency management autonomy for UAS
Prashin Sharma, Benjamin Kraske, Joseph Kim +3
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are being increasingly adopted for various applications. The risk UAS poses to people and property must be kept to acceptable levels. This paper pro…
Fast and Noise-Resilient Magnetic Field Mapping on a Low-Cost UAV Using Gaussian Process Regression
Prince E. Kuevor, Maani Ghaffari, Ella M. Atkins +1
This work presents a number of techniques to improve the ability to create magnetic field maps on a UAV which can be used to quickly and reliably gather magnetic field observations…
Wind Tunnel Testing and Aerodynamic Characterization of a QuadPlane Uncrewed Aircraft System
Akshay Mathur, Ella Atkins
Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles will open new opportunities in aviation. This paper describes the design and wind tunnel analysis of an eVTOL uncrewed aircra…
Quadrotor Formation Flying Resilient to Abrupt Vehicle Failures via a Fluid Flow Navigation Function
Matthew Romano, Harshvardhan Uppaluru, Hossein Rastgoftar +1
This paper develops and experimentally evaluates a navigation function for quadrotor formation flight that is resilient to abrupt quadrotor failures and other obstacles. The naviga…
Prognostics-Informed Battery Reconfiguration in a Multi-Battery Small UAS Energy System
Prashin Sharma, Ella Atkins
Batteries have been identified as one most likely small UAS (sUAS) components to fail in flight. sUAS safety will therefore be improved with redundant or backup batteries. This pap…