6 papers
Occlusion-Aware Ground Target Search by a UAV in an Urban Environment
Collin Hague, Artur Wolek
This paper considers the problem of searching for a point of interest (POI) moving along an urban road network with an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV is modeled as a variab…
Occlusion-Aware Ground Target Tracking by a Dubins Vehicle using Visibility Volumes
Collin Hague, Artur Wolek
This paper considers the problem of tracking a point of interest (POI) moving along a known trajectory on the ground with an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) modeled as a Dubins vehic…
UAV-Borne Mapping Algorithms for Low-Altitude and High-Speed Drone Applications
Jincheng Zhang, Artur Wolek, Andrew R. Willis
This article presents an analysis of current state-of-the-art sensors and how these sensors work with several mapping algorithms for UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) applications, foc…
Design and Flight Demonstration of a Quadrotor for Urban Mapping and Target Tracking Research
Collin Hague, Nick Kakavitsas, Jincheng Zhang +3
This paper describes the hardware design and flight demonstration of a small quadrotor with imaging sensors for urban mapping, hazard avoidance, and target tracking research. The v…
GPU-Accelerated 3D Polygon Visibility Volumes for Synergistic Perception and Navigation
Andrew Willis, Collin Hague, Artur Wolek +1
UAV missions often require specific geometric constraints to be satisfied between ground locations and the vehicle location. Such requirements are typical for contexts where line-o…
Quadrotor Takeoff Trajectory Planning in a One-Dimensional Uncertain Wind-field Aided by Wind-Sensing Infrastructure
Nicholas Kakavitsas, Artur Wolek
This paper investigates optimal takeoff trajectory planning for a quadrotor modeled with vertical-plane rigid body dynamics in an uncertain, one-dimensional wind-field. The wind-fi…