Autonomous Aerial Refueling for UAVs Using a Combined GPS-Machine Vision Guidance

Author(s):  
Giampiero Campa ◽  
Mario Luca Fravolini ◽  
Antonio Ficola ◽  
Marcello Napolitano ◽  
Brad Seanor ◽  
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1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. K. Giles ◽  
D. C. Slaughter

2012 ◽  
Vol 433-440 ◽  
pp. 4087-4094 ◽  
Author(s):  
Long Wang ◽  
Xin Min Dong ◽  
Jun Guo ◽  
Hai Yan Jia

According to the UAV autonomous aerial refueling based on GPS/Machine Vision integration, the restrictions on the sensors during docking are analyzed. An adaptive Federal Kalman Filter (AFKF) is proposed, which is based on extended Kalman filter arithmetic, after modeling the sensors measurement models. Reference trajectory of docking is planed using cubic interpolators and docking control laws are designed with LQR. Simulation results show that the controller ensure the stabilized tracking and docking, and the AFKF outputs is continuous and stabilized during sensor failure comparing to centralize Kalman filter.


2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 261-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soujanya Vendra ◽  
Giampiero Campa ◽  
Marcello R. Napolitano ◽  
Marco Mammarella ◽  
Mario L. Fravolini ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Giampiero Campa ◽  
Marco Mammarella ◽  
Marcello R. Napolitano ◽  
Mario L. Fravolini ◽  
Lorenzo Pollini ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocco V. Dell’Aquila ◽  
Giampiero Campa ◽  
Marcello R. Napolitano ◽  
Marco Mammarella

Author(s):  
Mario L. Fravolini ◽  
Marco Mammarella ◽  
Giampiero Campa ◽  
Marcello R. Napolitano ◽  
Mario Perhinschi

Author(s):  
Marco Mammarella ◽  
Giampiero Campa ◽  
Marcello R. Napolitano ◽  
Mario L. Fravolini ◽  
Yu Gu ◽  
...  

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