We discuss the development, integration, simulation, and flight test of a manned vehicle UAV mission system in a partially-known environment. The full control system allows a manned aircraft to issue mission level commands to an autonomous aircraft in realtime. This system includes a Natural Language (NL) Interface to allow the manned and unmanned vehicle to communicate in languages understood ...

We present our SAAVE (Synthetic Attention-span for Autonomous Vehicle Environments) technology. Originally designed for an unmanned vehicle (UV) application, SAAVE can be used to provide effective, mission-focused, low-bandwidth information sharing among teams of unmanned vehicles or other robotic entities. SAAVE combines system capability and mission effectiveness monitoring and introspective ...

Autonomous marine vehicles are remarkably useful for tasks such as shallow water surveying, environmental data collecting and military operations such as surveillance and weapon delivery. Because of the necessity for autonomous marine vehicles and the challenges they impose, they have gained a widespread interest among the research groups around the world. This paper presents a water surface au...

This paper introduces our robotic system named UGAV (Unmanned Ground-Air Vehicle) consisting of two semi-autonomous robot platforms, an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The paper focuses on three topics of the inspection with the combined UGV and UAV: (A) teleoperated control by means of cell or smart phones with a new concept of automatic configuration of th...

–The UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) systems like unmanned autonomous helicopters are used in various missions of flight navigation and used to collect the environmental information of the surroundings. To realize the full functionalities of the UAV, the software part becomes a challenging problem. In this paper embedded real-time software architecture for unmanned autonomous helicopter is propos...

The Norwegian Experimental Remotely Operated Vehicle (NEROV) is described. The vehicle is designed and built at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics , The Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH). The NEROV vehicle is an unmanned autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) especially designed for testing advanced intelligent and conventional control algorithms. The vehicle is autonomous with respec...

Recent development in unmanned space travel [1], agricultural automation [2], archaeological exploration [3] and evolution of military devices [4] shows that the demand for Unmanned Ground Vehicles is strongly increasing. Still most of the implementations appear more like enhanced remote-controlled cars [5] than autonomously acting and decision-taking, thkus "intelligent", robots. As teleoperat...

Autonomous vehicles offer means to complete unsafe military operations without endangering the lives of soldiers. Such solutions have fueled many efforts towards designing autonomous, or unmanned, systems. Military and academic research efforts alike continue to focus on developing these systems. While many different autonomous vehicles have been introduced, however, such complex systems have l...

Requirments for current and future Unmanned Air Vehicles with longer ight endurances have led to a need for an autonomous soaring capability. This paper investigates aircraft ight path guidance for search and localization of Regions of Interest, consisting of atmospheric phenomena. The problem is posed as an o ine agent learning problem, of localizing atmospheric thermal locations and then guid...