The potential role of lasers to defeat unmanned aerial vehicles Part 1: detection, tracking, and target recognition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ove Steinvall
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Target Recognition ◽  
Aerial Vehicles

scholarly journals Trust Mediating Reliability–Reliance Relationship in Supervisory Control of Human–Swarm Interactions

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (8) ◽  
pp. 1237-1248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aya Hussein ◽  
Sondoss Elsawah ◽  
Hussein A. Abbass
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Supervisory Control ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Trust In Automation ◽  
The Relationship

Objective This work aims to further test the theory that trust mediates the interdependency between automation reliability and the rate of human reliance on automation. Background Human trust in automation has been the focus of many research studies. Theoretically, trust has been proposed to impact human reliance on automation by mediating the relationship between automation reliability and the rate of human reliance. Experimentally, however, the results are contradicting as some confirm the mediating role of trust, whereas others deny it. Hence, it is important to experimentally reinvestigate this role of trust and understand how the results should be interpreted in the light of existing theory. Method Thirty-two subjects supervised a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in foraging missions in which the swarm provided recommendations on whether or not to collect potential targets, based on the information sensed by the UAVs. By manipulating the reliability of the recommendations, we observed changes in participants’ trust and their behavioral responses. Results A within-subject mediation analysis revealed a significant mediation role of trust in the relationship between swarm reliability and reliance rate. High swarm reliability increased the rate of correct acceptances, but decreased the rate of correct rejections. No significant effect of reliability was found on response time. Conclusion Trust is not a mere by-product of the interaction; it possesses a predictive power to estimate the level of reliance on automation. Application The mediation role of trust confirms the significance of trust calibration in determining the appropriate level of reliance on swarm automation.

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Deliver Medical and Emergency Supplies to Remote Areas

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Levi Henderson ◽  
Savern L. Reweti ◽  
Robyn Kamira
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Real World ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Unmanned Aircraft ◽  
Community Impact ◽  
The Real ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Aerial Vehicles

This chapter examines the role of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the delivery of medical and emergency supplies to remote areas. It outlines a number of potential considerations for operators wishing to use UAVs to deliver medical and emergency supplies to remote areas. These considerations address a number of practicalities in terms of the organisation that is wishing to conduct such operations, the operations themselves, and the technology that is used for such operations. These considerations primarily stem from the nature of the international regulatory framework for unmanned aircraft operations and the peculiarities of using a UAV to deliver medical and emergency supplies. The chapter will outline some of the practicalities that have been worked through or are being worked through during a project to deliver medical and emergency supplies in Northland, New Zealand. This will provide readers with examples of some of the real-world considerations that operators face as well as outline the positive community impact that such operations can provide.

Dynamic Building Tracking from UAVs Based on Image Manifold Learning

2013 ◽  
Vol 756-759 ◽  
pp. 4121-4125
Author(s):  
Peng Zhang ◽  
Yuan Yuan Ren
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Visual Tracking ◽  
Target Recognition ◽  
Perceptual Information ◽  
System Control ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Robust Feature Extraction ◽  
Image Manifold ◽  
Low Dimensional ◽  
Low Dimensional Features

Fast and accurate visual tracking of ground buildings can provide unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with rich perceptual information, which is very important for target recognition, navigation and system control. However, when an UAV moves fast, both background and buildings in visual scenes change relatively and rapidly. Consequently, there are no constant features for objects' appearance, which poses great challenges for visual tracking of buildings. In this paper, we first build an image manifold of buildings, which can encode the continuous variation of appearance. We then propose an efficient approach to learn this manifold and obtain more robust feature extraction results. By using a simple tracking framework, we successfully apply the extracted low-dimensional features to real-time building tracking. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Deliver Medical and Emergency Supplies to Remote Areas

2021 ◽  
pp. 1398-1422
Author(s):  
Isaac Levi Henderson ◽  
Savern L. Reweti ◽  
Robyn Kamira
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Real World ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Unmanned Aircraft ◽  
Community Impact ◽  
The Real ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Aerial Vehicles

This chapter examines the role of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the delivery of medical and emergency supplies to remote areas. It outlines a number of potential considerations for operators wishing to use UAVs to deliver medical and emergency supplies to remote areas. These considerations address a number of practicalities in terms of the organisation that is wishing to conduct such operations, the operations themselves, and the technology that is used for such operations. These considerations primarily stem from the nature of the international regulatory framework for unmanned aircraft operations and the peculiarities of using a UAV to deliver medical and emergency supplies. The chapter will outline some of the practicalities that have been worked through or are being worked through during a project to deliver medical and emergency supplies in Northland, New Zealand. This will provide readers with examples of some of the real-world considerations that operators face as well as outline the positive community impact that such operations can provide.

Emerging Technologies: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Gilli ◽  
Mauro Gilli
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Systems ◽  
Unmanned Systems ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
European Projects ◽  
Bilateral Cooperation ◽  
Aerial Systems ◽  
The Eu

This chapter investigates the challenges and constraints European countries have faced in the adoption, integration, and production of unmanned aerial systems—also known as drones or remotely piloted vehicles. It illustrates the broader technological transformations that have accompanied the rise of unmanned systems and qualifies their nature and features. It then discusses the various European projects in this field and their outcomes, looking at three periods: the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s. The analysis considers both the more successful cases as well as the more controversial programmes, discussing—when possible—the factors contributing to these outcomes, including the role of bilateral cooperation, of the EU, of NATO, and of industry. The chapter concludes with an overview of the field including the challenges ahead.

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