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- Decentralized Cooperative Aerial Surveillance using Fixed-Wing Miniature UAVs
- Numerous applications require aerial surveillance. Civilian applications include monitoring forest fires, oil fields and pipelines, and tracking wildlife. Applications to homeland security include border patrol and monitoring the perimeter of...
- Institutional Repository
- Fused Visible and Infrared Video for use in Wilderness Search and Rescue
- Mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (mUAVs) have the potential to assist Wilderness Search and Rescue groups by providing a bird’s eye view of the search area. This paper proposes a method for augmenting visible-spectrum searching with infrared sensing...
- Institutional Repository
- Rigby Star 1923 07 12 Vol 21 No 31
- BYUI - Rigby Star Newspapers
- GPU-Accelerated Hierarchical Dense Correspondence for Real-Time Aerial Video Processing
- Video from aerial surveillance can provide a rich source of data for many applications and can be enhanced for display and analysis through such methods as mosaic construction, super-resolution, and mover detection. All of these methods require...
- Institutional Repository
- Enhancement of Unusual Color in Aerial Video Sequences for Assisting Wilderness Search and Rescue
- The use of aerial video for search and surveillance has been popularized by the increased use of camera-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles. For many search applications, objects may also be missed by observers due to their small size, brief...
- Institutional Repository
- UAV Video Coverage Quality Maps and Prioritized Indexing for Wilderness Search and Rescue
- Video-equipped mini unmanned aerial vehicles (mini-UAVs) are becoming increasingly popular for surveillance, remote sensing, law enforcement, and search and rescue operations, all of which rely on thorough coverage of a target observation area....
- Institutional Repository
- Rigby Star 1926 08 19 Vol 24 No 37
- BYUI - Rigby Star Newspapers
- Applications of Search Theory to Coordinated Searching by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- BYU, UAV, agent, unmanned, target, localization, optimal, search, rescue, camera, image, skew, calibration, detection, probability, contour, greedy, lateral, range, width, color, segmentation, point, spread, map, Koopman, Stone, Zamboni
- Concepts in optimal search theory have been used in human-based aerial search since World War II. This thesis addresses the technical and theoretical issues necessary to apply this crucial theory to search path planning for Small Unmanned Aerial...
- ETD
- A Unified Approach to GPU-Accelerated Aerial Video Enhancement Techniques
- video enhancement, mosaic, super-resolution, mover-detection, image registration, dense correspondence, GPU acceleration
- Video from aerial surveillance can provide a rich source of data for analysts. From the time-critical perspective of wilderness search and rescue operations, information extracted from aerial videos can mean the difference between a successful...
- ETD
- Supporting Wilderness Search and Rescue with Integrated Intelligence: Autonomy and Information at the Right Time and the Right Place
- Current practice in Wilderness Search and Rescue (WiSAR) is analogous to an intelligent system designed to gather and analyze information to find missing persons in remote areas. The system consists of multiple parts — various tools for...
- Institutional Repository
- Dynamic Modeling, Trajectory Generation and Tracking for Towed Cable Systems
- towed cable system, trajectory generation, trajectory tracking, model predictive control, differential flatness, autopilot in the loop, aerial recovery
- In this dissertation, we focus on the strategy that places and stabilizes the path of an aerial drogue, which is towed by a mothership aircraft using a long flexible cable, onto a horizontally flat orbit by maneuvering the mothership in the...
- ETD
- Rigby Star 1923 12 27 Vol 22 No 03
- BYUI - Rigby Star Newspapers
- Performance Evaluation of Vision-Based Navigation and Landing on a Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- A Rotorcraft UAV provides an ideal experimental platform for vision-based navigation. This paper describes the flight tests of the US Army PALACE project, which implements Moravec’s pseudo-normalized correlation tracking algorithm. The tracker...
- Institutional Repository
- Arnoldia kuesii, a new juvenile fernlike plant from the Lower Permian of New Mexico
- A nearly complete juvenile fernlike plant is described here from Lower Permian rocks of New Mexico. The fossil consists of a horizontal rhizome with roots, a short thick upright aerial branch, and a tuft of dimorphic leaves. It is assigned to...
- Institutional Repository
- Investigations at Edzna Campeche, Mexico, vol. 1 pt. 1 The hydraulic system
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--Edzna; Edzna Site (Mexico)--Antiquities; Maya pottery;
- Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, no. 46 vol. 1 pt. 1
- New World Archaeological Foundation
- Using Motion Fields to Estimate Video Utility and Detect GPS Spoofing
- motion field, optical flow, video utility, surveillance, reconnaissance, GPS spoofing, fault detection
- This work explores two areas of research. The first is the development of a video utility metric for use in aerial surveillance and reconnaissance tasks. To our knowledge, metrics that compute how useful aerial video is to a human in the context of...
- ETD
- Autonomous Landing of a Rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in a Non-cooperative Environment using Machine Vision
- UAV, unmanned, aerial, vehicle, rotorcraft, rotary, landing, non-cooperative, autonomous
- Landing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a non-trivial problem. Removing the ability to cooperate with the landing site further increases the complexity. This thesis develops a multi-stage process that allows a UAV to locate the safest landing...
- ETD
- Design Of An Autopilot For Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- UAV, Autopilot, MAGICC Lab, Randy Beard, Reed Christiansen, ZAGI, Flying Wing, Procerus, MAGICC Tech, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, AFRL, Tactical Mini UAV,Tactical UAV, Attitude Estimation
- This thesis presents the design of an autopilot capable of flying small unmanned aerial vehicles with wingspans less then 21 inches. The autopilot is extremely small and lightweight allowing it to fit in aircraft of this size. The autopilot...
- ETD
- Aerial Recovery of Micro Air Vehicles: Orbit Estimation and Tracking
- aerial recovery, unmanned air vehicles, micro air vehicles, towed cable systems, orbit estimation, orbit tracking
- Aerial recovery of autonomous micro air vehicles (MAVs) presents many unique challenges due to the difference in size and speed of the recovery vehicle and MAV. This thesis presents algorithms to enable an autonomous MAV to estimate the orbit of a...
- ETD
- System Identification, State Estimation, and Control of Unmanned Aerial Robots
- quadrotor control, path planning, aerial surveillance, system identification, quadrotor attitude estimation, quadrotor
- This thesis describes work in a variety of topics related to aerial robotics, including system identification, state estimation, control, and path planning. The path planners described in this thesis are used to guide a fixed-wing UAV along paths...
- ETD