Search for dissertations about: "Unmanned Ground Vehicles"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words Unmanned Ground Vehicles.
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1. Vision-Based Localization and Guidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Abstract : The thesis has been developed as part of the requirements for a PhD degree at the Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer System division (AIICS) in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Linköping University.The work focuses on issues related to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation, in particular in the areas of guidance and vision-based autonomous flight in situations of short and long term GPS outage. READ MORE
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2. Model Predictive Control for Cooperative Rendezvous of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles
Abstract : This thesis investigates cooperative maneuvers for aerial vehicles autonomously landing on moving platforms. The objective has been to develop methods for safely performing such landings on real systems subject to a variety of disturbances, as well as physical and computational constraints. READ MORE
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3. Automation in forestry : development of unmanned forwarders
Abstract : For the last 50 year, forestry operations have become more and more mechanized. In modern forestry in Europe two machines are typically used; a harvester that fells, debranches and cross-cuts the trees into logs and a forwarder that transports them to the nearest road. READ MORE
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4. On Cooperative Surveillance, Online Trajectory Planning and Observer Based Control
Abstract : The main body of this thesis consists of six appended papers. In the first two, different cooperative surveillance problems are considered. The second two consider different aspects of the trajectory planning problem, while the last two deal with observer design for mobile robotic and Euler-Lagrange systems respectively. READ MORE
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5. Towards Enabling Exploration of Planetary Subterranean Environments using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Abstract : This thesis presents a novel navigation framework established to enable the exploration of planetary subterranean areas with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The key contributions of this thesis work form a robot-safe rapid navigation framework that utilizes a novel bifurcating frontier-based exploration approach. READ MORE