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2. Landmark-Aided Localization for Air Vehicles Using Learned Object Detectors

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Open Access
Author:
DeAngelo, Mark Patrick
Title:
Landmark-Aided Localization for Air Vehicles Using Learned Object Detectors
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
localization
feature-based navigation
UAV
UAS
navigation
computer vision
landmark detection
object detection
cascade object detector
bag of words
bag of visual words
bag of keypoints
SVM
visual flight rules
VFR
image processing
UUV
AUV
sonar
underwater
airplane
quadcopter
aircraft
unmanned aerial vehicle
unmanned aerial system
remotely piloted vehicle
RPV
unmanned underwater vehicle
autonomous underwater vehicle
localisation
File:
Download MPDeAngeloDissertation_FinalMSWordPDF.pdf
Committee Members:
Joseph F. Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph F. Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
Sean N. Brennan, Committee Member
Richard Lee Culver, Outside Member

3. Shipboard UAS Operations with Optimized Landing Trajectories

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Open Access
Author:
Pravitra, Jintasit
Title:
Shipboard UAS Operations with Optimized Landing Trajectories
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
UAS
EiLQR
iLQR
DDP
shipboard landing
shipboard helicopter
GPU
File:
Download Ep_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Joseph Horn, Major Field Member
Puneet Singla, Major Field Member
Eric Johnson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sean Brennan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

4. Design and Fabrication of a Low-Cost, Low-Speed, Self-Deploying sUAS Motor Glider

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Open Access
Author:
Jones, Thomas
Title:
Design and Fabrication of a Low-Cost, Low-Speed, Self-Deploying sUAS Motor Glider
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
sUAS
UAS
self-deployment
self-deploying
unmanned aerial system
motor glider
low-cost
low-speed
unmanned aircraft
L/D ratio
lift-to-drag ratio
File:
Download Jones_2023_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Michael Andrew Yukish, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon W Miller, Committee Member
Jacob Langelaan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Julia Cole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

5. Scaled Experiments in Vision-Based Approach and Landing in High Sea States

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Open Access
Author:
Nicholson, Duncan
Title:
Scaled Experiments in Vision-Based Approach and Landing in High Sea States
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Ship
Deck
Landing
UAV
UAS
Fiducial
Control
Estimation
Precision Landing
shipboard
sUAS
File:
Download MS_Thesis_Duncan_Nicholson.pdf
Committee Members:
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member

6. Receding Horizon Control for Autonomous UAS Shipboard Landing with Tau Guidance and Polynomial Trajectory Planning

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Open Access
Author:
Jaques, Emma
Title:
Receding Horizon Control for Autonomous UAS Shipboard Landing with Tau Guidance and Polynomial Trajectory Planning
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
UAS
Receding Horizon Control
Path Planning
Tau Guidance
Trajectory Planning
Polynomial Path Planning
Second Order Tau Guidance
Nondimensionaization
Control Systems
Guidance
Navigation
Control
File:
Download Emma_Jaques_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Jacob Langelaan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member

7. Mid-Fidelity Performance Analysis for Fixed-Pitch Speed-Controlled Multirotor Aircraft

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Author:
Cornelius, Jason
Title:
Mid-Fidelity Performance Analysis for Fixed-Pitch Speed-Controlled Multirotor Aircraft
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Helicopter
Multirotor
CFD
Rotorcraft
High Performance Computing
GPU
Coaxial
Coaxial Rotor
Machine Learning
Surrogate Models
Dragonfly
Drone
UAS
Urban Air Mobility
Unmanned Aerial Systems
BEMT
Aerodynamics
Aircraft
C81 Tables
OVERFLOW
ARC2D
Airfoil Performance
NASA
Langley TDT
Langley 14-by 22-ft. Subsonic Tunnel Facility
Langley Transonic Dynamics Tunnel
Hybrid BEMT-URANS CFD
Linux Bash Scripting
GPU CFD Acceleration
Gaussian Process Regression
Neural Networks
Conceptual Design
Preliminary Design
File:
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Committee Members:
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Haworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sven Schmitz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Jose Palacios, Major Field Member
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Larry Young, Special Signatory

8. Antenna Radiation Pattern Mapping with an Unmanned Aerial System

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Author:
Yuan, Alex
Title:
Antenna Radiation Pattern Mapping with an Unmanned Aerial System
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
UAS
UAV
SDR
drone
quadcopter
antenna
radiation pattern
RF
HackRF
Pixhawk
Ardupilot
Mission Planner
GRC
GNU Radio
Python
MATLAB
File:
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Committee Members:
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
James Kenneth Breakall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory Huff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erik H. Lenzing, Special Signatory

9. Cybersecurity Analysis and Defense of the MAVLink UAS Protocol

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Open Access
Author:
Emani, Rahul
Title:
Cybersecurity Analysis and Defense of the MAVLink UAS Protocol
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
UAS
Cybersecurity
Flight Protocols
MAVLink
File:
Download Cybersecurity_Analysis_and_Defense_of_the_MAVLink_UAS_Protocol.pdf
Committee Members:
Simon W Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Timothy E Kohler, Special Signatory
Thomas W Hilands, Special Signatory
Michael Roan, Committee Member