Experimental Demonstration of Bistatic UAV-Borne SAR and InSAR

The Distributed Aperture Radar Tomographic Sensors (DARTS) project at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory aims to mature and demonstrate multi-static SAR measurements for fine-scale …

MAGIC-VFM - Meta Adaptive Control for Ground Vehicles with Visual Foundation Models

Planning and control of ground vehicles are challenging because of complex dynamic interactions with the terrain. Therefore, accurate modeling of terrain interaction forces is …

Learning-based Minimally-Sensed Fault-Tolerant Adaptive Flight Control

This paper presents a novel sparse failure identification method along with rapid control reconstitution using deep neural networks for detecting and compensating for motor …

Online Self-Supervised Thermal Water Segmentation for Aerial Vehicles

We present a new method to adapt an RGB-trained water segmentation network to target-domain aerial thermal imagery using online self-supervision by leveraging texture and motion …

UAV-Borne Bistatic Sar and Insar Experiments in Support of STV and SDC Target Observables

The ongoing Distributed Aperture Radar Tomographic Sensors (DARTS) project at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory aims to mature and demonstrate multi-static SAR measurements for …

UAS Flight Testing in Support of Research for Academia: Lessons and Experiences from the Field

Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and miniaturized high-performance computing have enabled flight testing to become incredibly accessible, changing the status quo from an …

NeBula: TEAM CoSTAR's Robotic Autonomy Solution that Won Phase II of DARPA Subterranean Challenge

This paper presents and discusses algorithms, hardware, and software architecture developed by the TEAM CoSTAR (Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Robots), competing in the …

Development of Ultra-Wideband Software Defined Radar Testbed to support SAR Tomographic Mission Formulation

Recent innovations in small satellite, ultra-wideband direct RF sampling, and synchronization technologies have made multistatic and MIMO coherent SAR constellations a feasible …

Distributed Aperture RADAR Tomographic Sensors (DARTS) to Map Surface Topography and Vegetation Structure

Experiments with Small UAS to Support SAR Tomographic Mission Formulation

Neural Tree Expansion for Multi-Robot Planning in Non-Cooperative Environments

We present a self-improving, neural tree expansionmethod for multi-robot online planning in non-cooperative environments, where each robot tries to maximize its cumulative reward …

Design of the Next-Generation Autonomous Flying Ambulance

As electric aircraft take to the skies, it is becoming common to speculate on potential niches in which to apply the technology. One promising role for these vehicles is in the …

Development and Deployment of an Autonomous UAV-Borne Gas and Particulate Sample Capture System for Fumarole Sampling

Volcanoes are one of the great forces of the natural world. The gases they release can reveal information about the world below us, from the structure of the planet, to the risk of …

Design and Autonomous Stabilization of a Ballistically-Launched Multirotor

Aircraft that can launch ballistically and convert to autonomous, free-flying drones have applications in many areas such as emergency response, defense, and space exploration, …

Flight Experimentation Towards Enhanced UAV Capabilities – The Multi-rotor Air-Crane

This paper discusses the development and successful flight testing of a multirotor sky-crane system used for launching aircraft from altitude. Research and testing has been …

Modelling Small Electric Brushless Motors and Propellers

Propeller dynamics play an important role in the stability and controllability of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), however are often greatly simplified or even neglected …

Modelling Propellers in FINE/Open using OpenLabs

With the prolific rise of unmanned aerial vehices (UAVs), interest is increasingly growing in optimising airframes to improve flight characterisitcs. Tools such as computational …

Propeller Location Optimisation for Annular Wing Design

Most research today into the aerodynamics of ducts seeks to increase the thrust or efficiency of a propeller nested inside. This study takes a different approach to duct design and …