Browsing by Author "L'Afflitto, Andrea"
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Development and Simulation of a Novel Guidance System for Quadrotors Flying in a Contested Environment
Domann, Coleton (2019-08-01)Due to their accessibility, quadrotors are used as testbeds for guidance, navigation, and control systems and have been used for a wide variety of applications. These applications range from commercial aerial photography ... -
Numerical Methods for Optimal Trajectory Planning with Aerospace Applications
Blackford, Timothy (2019-05-10)Optimal control theory focuses on finding the inputs that optimize the performance measure of a system subject to differential constraints. Differential game theory focuses on problems involving two separate parties, one ... -
Preliminary Design of Robust Adaptive Control Laws for an Aerial Manipulator
Burke, John-Paul (2019-05-10)One platform commonly used in modern control systems research is the quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This platform finds many uses in both civilian and military aviation, such as aerial surveillance and imaging, ... -
Robust Adaptive Control Laws for Tilt-Rotor Quadcopters Subject to User-Defined Constraints
Anderson, Robert (2019-05-10)This thesis focuses on Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) and its application to a tilt-rotor quadcopter. After formulating two standard MRAC approaches, this thesis proposes a robust model reference adaptive control ... -
Toward Tactical Autonomy in Aerial Robotics
Karinshak, Joshua (2019-08-01)This thesis addresses the issue of the generation of tactical trajectories, as is desirable in the case of robot autonomy in hostile environments. The generation of such trajectory currently lies beyond the purview of ...