This paper presents a novel approach to autonomous extinguishing of indoor fires inside building by Micro-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (MAV). In particular, controlling and estimating the MAV state, detection entrance, multi-modal localization during outdoor-indoor transition, interior motion planning exploration, fire position estimation, are discussed. The performance these elements, as well...

Animal mycobacterioses are among the most important zoonoses worldwide. These are generally caused by either Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), M. bovis (MBO) or M. avium (MAV). To test the hypothesis that different species of pathogenic mycobacteria isolated from varied anatomic locations or animal species differ in virulence and pathogenicity, we performed experiments with three mycobacteria s...

This paper further explores the use of a genetic algorithm for the purposes of evolving the control systems for distributed micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). The control systems are essentially evolved rule sets which take into account target surveillance area coverage and built in sensors in the MAV. As in previous work where the overall task is distributed, the same rule set is contained in each ...

OBJECTIVE To study whether subvolumes with a high pre-chemoradiotherapy (CRT) FDG uptake could identify residual metabolically-active volumes (MAVs) post-CRT within individual esophageal tumors. Accurate identification will allow simultaneous integrated boost to these subvolumes at higher risk to improve clinical outcomes. METHODS Twenty patients with esophageal cancer were treated with CRT p...

The purpose of this research is to model and control a dragonflylike flapping wing micro aerial vehicle (FWMAV). It is well known that micro aerial vehicle (MAV) designs can be classified as fixed wing, rotary wing and flapping wing. Fixed wing MAV is capable of fast forward flight, which is suitable for flying outdoor. Rotary wing MAV is suitable for movement at low speed. Recently, flapping w...

Recent terrorist attacks on the United States have exposed the need for better surveillance and situational awareness technologies. Organizations created to address these needs are aggressively funding research in the use of Micro Air Vehicles for homeland security missions. Such missions have been occurring in caves, tunnels, and urban areas. By mimicking flying insects which navigate in these...

A complex system for control of swarms of micro aerial vehicles (MAV), in literature also called as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or unmanned aerial systems (UAS), stabilized via an onboard visual relative localization is described in this paper. The main purpose of this work is to verify the possibility of self-stabilization of multi-MAV groups without an external global positioning system. T...

Mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) produces a lethal disease in newborn or suckling mice characterized by infectious virus and viral lesions in multiple organs. Previous reports of MAV-1 infection of adult mice generally described serologic evidence of infection without morbidity or mortality. However, our current results demonstrate that MAV-1 causes a fatal illness in adult C57BL/6(B6) mice (50%...

Transitioning from a simulation environment to real flight can be costly for MAV system and algorithm designers as they wrestle with the challenges and unpredictability of the real world. This transition often involves problems that can result in hardware damage or possibly injury. We have developed a system that cost-effectively addresses these problems. The system creates a virtual cage in wh...