UECIMUAVS · USA and Europe Cooperation in Mini UAVs
FP7 — People (Marie Curie Actions)
- Duration
- 2012-01-05 → 2016-01-04
- EU contribution
- €111,300
- Participants
- 2
- Scheme
- MC-IRSES
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Results in brief
USA and Europe Cooperation in Mini UAVs
This project represents research collaboration in the innovative and promising topic of UAVs in-between research institutions from Europe and USA (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Linköping University in Sweden, Arizona State University). The live motive of the project has been the coordination between the complementary activities of mentioned institutions in order to push the state of the art of UAVs for their applications in the civil arena. The main technical objectives have been: • Development of a general frame software structure, called Aerostack, that allows both, to be used as a powerful and flexible tool for the development of new software modules for UAVs, and it can also be used by final end-users to define complex missions by writing them in a new created TML language. Se Fig 1: Aerostack • Development of generic Visual based Pose Estimation tools, that can be fused with other usual sensors (e.g. imu, altimeters, gps) in order to highly improve the relative position of the UAV related to its nearby environment. This relevant feature can provide the UAVs with the necessary autonomy for interacting with the environment. See Figure2:demo. • The coordination of the three institutions has allowed to merge the individual developments for several different UAVs, including multirootors, halicopters and fix-wing planes, and several applicaions areas, such as autonomous landing in moving platforms, precisssion agricultures, industrial inspection and see&avoid. See Figure3:mutirotors. • Some of the developed techniques have successfully been used in several international competitions, in which the a representative team have obtained relevant prices regarding UAVs autonomy, including first prices and several special awards. See figure4:IMAV
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Project objective
Unmanned Aerial Systems have been an active area of research in recent years all around the world. Top research centres in the word are working on new applications, improving previous ones, solving specific problems in the different areas. Each centre has taken a special area of the whole field into focus and they are taking specialization on it. It makes a huge scattered network of knowledge.The project that we present here is an attempt to connect some relevant nodes of this network putting in contact 4 leading research centres whit experience in different fields connected and complementary, but not superposed. Thus, the opportunities and strength of each partner will be increased.The members of the consortium are:•The ASU (Arizona State University) Robotics Laboratory (http://robotics.asu.edu ) has significant experience in designing, building and deploying aerial and aquatic mobile robot systems. The present inventory of robots includes multiple fixed wing, rotary aerial vehicles and autonomous underwater vehicles with varied capabilities in sensing and actuation.•The Linköping University, Artificial Intelligence & Integrated Computer Systems Division (http://www.ida.liu.se/~patdo/aiicssite1 ), contributes with his experience in quadrotor systems for indoor and outdoor, visual navigation and with Software Architectures for micro-uavs.•The Universidad Politécnica Madrid, Computer Vision Group (www.disam.upm.es/colibri ), contributes with his experience in visual guidance and visual control for rotatory UAVs.All the above makes a great opportunity to share knowledge, expertise, work-styles, etc. different operative test beds, laboratories and R&D leading technology facilities and no less importance, cultural aspects.
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