A cooperative autopilot is developed for the control of the relative attitude, relative position, and absolute attitude of two maneuvering spacecraft during on orbit proximity operations. The autopilot consists of a open-loop trajectory solver which computes a nine dimensional linearized nominal state trajectory at the beginning of each maneuver and a phase space regulator which maintains the t...

The AERObot is a special ARM microcontroller-based autopilot for small and medium size UAVs 1 developed at Óbuda Universtiy for research purposes. The aim of the research was to create a generic autopilot which is capable of controlling different design, weight and structure airframes without any complex parameter or model recalculation as usual for e.g. switching between tailless or classic ta...

In this study, pilots were asked to achieve a specific time in trail while flying an arrival into Louisville International airport. Weather shortly before the start of the descent added variability to the initial intervals. A spacing tool calculated airspeeds intended to achieve the desired time in trail at the final approach fix. Pilots were exposed to four experimental conditions which varied...

Abstract: Along with increasing marine transportation and logistics, the ship autopilot has become much important not only to lower the seaman's operating intensions, but also to reduce the seaman's deployment. It is still a challenge to design ship course-keeping controller because of ship's uncertain dynamics and time-varying environmental disturbance. This study focuses on backstepping adapt...

Recent work has shown a convergence between the Human Factors and Formal Methods communities that opens promising new directions for collaborative work in calculating, predicting, and analyzing the behavior of complex aeronautical systems and their operators. Previously it has been shown that fully automatic, finitestate verification techniques can be used to identify likely sources of mode con...