[PDF][PDF] Flight Testing of an Unmanned Aircraft System-A Research Perspective

JC Dauer, FM Adolf, S Lorenz - STO Meeting Proceedings STO …, 2015 - researchgate.net
This contribution outlines the lessons learned from ten years of flight test experience with
ARTIS, a family of unmanned helicopters of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The …

Certification and software verification considerations for autonomous unmanned aircraft

C Torens, FM Adolf, L Goormann - Journal of Aerospace Information …, 2014 - arc.aiaa.org
Software verification for highly automatic unmanned aerial vehicles is not only a problem
itself, it is furthermore constrained by certification standards and regulatory rules. These …

Efficient continuous curvature path generation with pseudo-parametrized algebraic splines

F Pinchetti, A Joos, W Fichter - CEAS Aeronautical Journal, 2018 - Springer
This paper investigates a method to achieve computationally efficient path generation and
tracking, suitable for manned operations. To provide an adequate level of comfort to the …

Quadrotor thrust vectoring control with time and jerk optimal trajectory planning in constant wind fields

JP Silva, C De Wagter, G de Croon - Unmanned Systems, 2018 - World Scientific
This paper proposes a trajectory planning and control strategy to optimally visit a given set of
waypoints in the presence of wind. First, aerodynamic properties of quadrotors which affect …

Rapid trajectory time reduction for unmanned rotorcraft navigating in unknown terrain

S Schopferer, FM Adolf - 2014 International Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Onboard and online flight path planning for small-scale unmanned rotorcraft requires very
efficient algorithms in order to meet runtime constraints. When flying through a priori …

Rapid multi-query path planning for a vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicle

FM Adolf, F Andert - Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and …, 2011 - arc.aiaa.org
Nomenclature dclear Minimum clearance distance of the vehicle from the closest obstacle
vkmax Maximum length of a velocity command vector vk tmax Upper bound of overall re …

Software verification considerations for the ARTIS unmanned rotorcraft

C Torens, F Adolf - 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including …, 2013 - arc.aiaa.org
The ARTIS project works on creating a UAV platform that aims at maximized onboard
information processing and decision making in cooperation with human operators. But with …

[PDF][PDF] Motion planning with Hermite splines for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in information gathering task

A Duben - Czech Technical University, Prague, 2018 - core.ac.uk
Motion planning with Hermite splines for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in information gathering
task- Acronym Page 1 CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE Faculty of Electrical …

Flight Planning Using Time Annotated B-Splines for Safe Airspace Integration

N Voget, J Krimphove, D Moormann - CEAS EuroGNC 2019, 2019 - eurognc.ceas.org
Within the near future a high rise of automatic flights of unmanned aerial vehicles beyond
visual line of sight is expected. In order to efficiently coordinate these flights, unmanned …

Steps towards scalable and modularized flight software for unmanned aircraft systems

JC Dauer, L Goormann… - International Journal of …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Unmanned aircraft (UA) applications impose a variety of computing tasks on the on-board
computer system. From a research perspective, it is often more convenient to evaluate …