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Uav 6dof Simulation And Kalman Filter For Localizing Radioactive Sources, John G. Goulet
Uav 6dof Simulation And Kalman Filter For Localizing Radioactive Sources, John G. Goulet
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) expand the available mission-space for a wide range of budgets. Using MATLAB, this project has developed a six degree of freedom (6DOF) simulation of UAV flight, an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), and an algorithm for localizing radioactive sources using low-cost hardware. The EKF uses simulated low-cost instruments in an effort to estimate the UAV state throughout simulated flight.
The 6DOF simulates aerodynamics, physics, and controls throughout the flight and provides outputs for each time step. Additionally, the 6DOF simulation offers the ability to control UAV flight via preset waypoints or in realtime via keyboard input.
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Flight Characteristic Verification Of The Variable Camber Compliant Wing, Sharee B. Acosta
Flight Characteristic Verification Of The Variable Camber Compliant Wing, Sharee B. Acosta
Theses and Dissertations
Morphing wing technology gives aircraft the ability to change wing shape to control the aircraft and flight performance characteristics. AFIT, AFRL and USU Aero Lab have collaborated to design and test a variable camber compliant wing (VCCW) on a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Flight tests demonstrated the wing performance and provided data to refine a VCCW flight simulator. Work was completed with the USU AeroLab-generated MachUp and the actual flight data to improve the simulator to provide results close to those of the actual flight test. The research provides a tool to reduce time and cost for future flight …