This paper presents and overview of the basic and applied research carried out by the Computer Vision Laboratory, Linköping University, in the WITAS UAV Project. This work includes customizing and redesigning vision methods to fit the particular needs and restrictions imposed by the UAV platform, e.g., for low-level vision, motion estimation, navigation, and tracking. It also includes a new lea...

Die Naturstiftung David untersucht, ob durch eine energetische Nutzung von unkontrolliertem Bewuchs auf schützenswerten Kulturlandschaften, diese erhalten werden können. Neben traditionellen Methoden zur Erfassung des stockenden Biomassepotenzials testete die RUCON Engineering erstmals die Eignung von mittels UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) gewonnen Luftbildern auf Freistellungsflächen in Thürin...

An established rift in the Larsen C Ice Shelf, formerly constrained by a suture zone containing marine ice, grew rapidly during 2014 and is likely in the near future to generate the largest calving event since the 1980s and result in a new minimum area for the ice shelf. Here we investigate the recent development of the rift, quantify the projected calving event and, using a numerical model, as...

Introduced in 2005 as a new AI Challenge and Competition, general game playing has quickly evolved into an established research area. More recently it is also gaining popularity as a useful addition to AI curricula at universities around the world. The first part of this paper will survey the research landscape of general game playing, which covers a broad range of classic AI topics, including ...

This article considers a sensor management problem where a number of road bounded vehicles are monitored by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a gimballed vision sensor. The problem is to keep track of all discovered targets and simultaneously search for new targets by controlling the pointing direction of the vision sensor and the motion of the UAV. A planner based on a state-machine is pro...

Under the sponsorship of the Air Force Research Laboratory, a development team has been defining a set of intelligent tools that will enable a single non-rated operator to provide supervisory control of multiple unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) engaged in tactical support to ground forces. Early work has defined concepts for the operator-system relationship, identified functional requirements, and ...

This paper presents a methodology that enables fault detection in dynamic systems based on recent immune theory. The fault detection is a challenging problem due to increasing complexity of processes and agility necessary to avoid malfunction or accidents. The fault detection central challenge is determining the difference between normal and potential harmful activities at dynamic systems. A pr...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2017.04.011 0168-1699/ 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Technological Sciences Center (CCT), Northern Paraná State University (UENP), Rodovia BR-369 Km 54, Vila Maria, CP 261 – Zip Code: 86360-000, Bandeirantes, Paraná, Brazil. E-mail address: [email protected] (B.S. Faiçal). 1 Agriculture Department (2003) defines a pest i...

The in-flight ice formation and accretion are highly dependent on weather conditions that essentially affect the heat transfer capability. When the temperature is sufficiently cold, the heat transfer is adequate to remove all of the latent heat from the collected water. The rate of rime ice accretion is controlled by the droplet collection efficiency. Otherwise, when the heat transfer is inadeq...

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