Unmanned aerial vehicles for research in dynamics, guidance and control

无人机(UAV)在军事应用方面取得了巨大的进展，但它们的民用还处于起步阶段。无人机在资源监测和测绘、民用安全监测、减灾和应对灾害以及监测管道和远程设施方面具有巨大潜力。这项提案的共同申请者已经参与了用于监视应用的无人驾驶航空系统的研究。这里要求的资金将允许他们现有的无人机平台进行戏剧性的扩张和更新。特别是，这笔钱将用于购买室内四旋翼平台(Qball)、固定风力平台Cropcam以及控制和传感硬件，以升级两艘现有的非常规飞艇。将对这些车辆进行的研究包括单无人机和多无人机系统的制导、控制和规划，这些系统的平台具有非常不同的能力(速度、耐力、安全)。

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).