Multifunctional Inshore Survey Platform with Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Developing Autonomy for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Surface Transportation Surveillance from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) promise a low cost means to achieve a "bird's eye view" and a rapid response for a wide array of transportation operations and planning applications, including incident response, coordination among a network of traffic signals, traveler information, emergency vehicle guidance, and measurement of typical roadway usage. However, many obstacles to operational use ex...

Autopilots for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Survey

This paper presents a survey of the autopilot systems for small or micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The objective is to provide a summary of the current commercial, open source and research autopilot systems for convenience of potential small UAV users. The UAV flight control basics are introduced first. The radio control system and autopilot control system are then explained from both th...

A Survey of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for Traffic Surveillance

The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) has been interested for the past several years in obtaining data on traffic trends and to monitor and control traffic in realtime. Currently, there are several methods by which the DOT regulates and monitors road transport. Cameras mounted on towers, detectors embedded in pavements or pneumatic tubes, and unmanned aircraft have been proven to...

Terrain traversability analysis methods for unmanned ground vehicles: A survey

Motion planning for unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) constitutes a domain of research where several disciplines meet, ranging from artificial intelligence and machine learning to robot perception and computer vision. In view of the plurality of related applications such as planetary exploration, search and rescue, agriculture, mining and off-road exploration, the aim of the present survey is to r...