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Development Of An Autonomous Aerial Toolset For Agricultural Applications, Terrance Life
Development Of An Autonomous Aerial Toolset For Agricultural Applications, Terrance Life
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
According to the United Nations, the world population is expected to grow from its current 7 billion to 9.7 billion by the year 2050. During this time, global food demand is also expected to increase by between 59% and 98% due to the population increase, accompanied by an increasing demand for protein due to a rising standard of living throughout developing countries. [1] Meeting this increase in required food production using present agricultural practices would necessitate a similar increase in farmland; a resource which does not exist in abundance. Therefore, in order to meet growing food demands, new methods will …
Real-Time Path Planning In Constrained, Uncertain Environments, Randall Christensen, Robert C. Leishman
Real-Time Path Planning In Constrained, Uncertain Environments, Randall Christensen, Robert C. Leishman
Faculty Publications
A key enabler of autonomous vehicles is the ability to plan the path of the vehicle to accomplish mission objectives. To be robust to realistic environments, path planners must account for uncertainty in the trajectory of the vehicle as well as uncertainty in the location of obstacles. The uncertainty in the trajectory of the vehicle is a difficult quantity to estimate, and is influenced by coupling between the vehicle dynamics, guidance, navigation, and control system as well as any disturbances acting on the vehicle. Monte Carlo analysis is the conventional approach to determine vehicle dispersion, while accounting for the coupled …