Unmanned aerial vehicles for research in dynamics, guidance and control

无人驾驶飞行器（uav）在军事应用方面取得了巨大进展，但其民用用途尚处于起步阶段。无人机在资源监视和测绘、民用安全监视、减灾和响应以及管道和远程设施监控方面提供了巨大的潜力。本申请的共同申请人已参与研究用于监视应用的无人驾驶航空系统。这里所要求的资金将允许其现有无人机平台的急剧扩张和复兴。特别是，这笔钱将用于购买室内四旋翼平台（Qball），固定风平台Cropcam以及控制和传感硬件，以升级两种非传统的现有飞艇。将对这些车辆进行的研究包括具有非常不同能力（速度、续航力、安全性）的单和多无人机系统的制导、控制和规划。

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have made tremendous inroads in military applications, but their civilian uses are in their infancy. UAVs offer great potential in the surveillance and mapping of resources, civilian security surveillance, disaster mitigation and response, and monitoring of pipelines and remote installations. The co-applicants in this proposal are already involved in research on unmannaed aerial systems for surveiallance applications. The funds requested here would allow a dramatic expansion and rejuvenation of their existing UAV platforms. In particular, the money would be used to purchase an indoor quadrotor platform (Qball), a fixed-wind platform Cropcam and control and sensing hardware to upgrade the two unconventional existing airships. The research that would be undertaken with these vehicles includes guidance, control and planning of single and multi-UAV systems with platforms that have very different capabilities (speed, endurance, safety).