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Research Topic Description, including Problem Statement:
Robotic systems, and more specifically, airborne vehicles (e.g., quadcopters/UAV/drones) have captured both the public’s and military’s imagination with an ever increasing display of aerobatic capabilities, and potential applications. Today, drones are used in a multitude of applications that range from previewing real estate to the delivery of pizzas and merchandise to the home. The military now employs low cost drones, or small UAV’s for aerial surveillance in hostile or combat areas.
But a major limitation of most drones/small UAV’s, is that they navigate from point A to point B, by either pre-programmed GPS coordinates, and/or, by human/operator control. Unfortunately, that limits their applicability to situations where GPS is not obstructed (denied), and/ or field situations where constant human interaction is maintained. Navigation is not possible without the availability of one, or both of the aforementioned aides.
In order to enable robotic systems, the ability to navigate when human or GPS guidance is not available, robotic autonomy is rapidly becoming an important area of research in the development of “smart” systems (e.g., “smart cars”). Autonomy, in this sense, is the development of probabilistic approaches, coupled with decision making algorithms, which collectively, (a) enable the robotic system to become “self-aware” of its surroundings, and (b) make appropriate decisions (much like a human would) in determining a course of action (eg, direction, grab or releasing a payload, power down/up, etc).
The military, and in particularly DARPA, has recently begun to address the development of small, fast and autonomous UAV’s. DARPA claims that, if successful, these algorithms could enhance unmanned system capabilities by reducing the amount of processing power, communications, and human intervention needed for navigating cluttered areas and responding to emergency situations. Furthermore, and perhaps more significantly, it was pointed out by Stefanie Tompkins, the Director of DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office – “The benefits of such algorithms go far beyond UAVs. Ground, marine and underwater systems would also stand to benefit, as would operations in environments where GPS data is unreliable or unavailable”.
It should be pointed out that the development of autonomous robotic systems is a large, and diverse area of research that encompass many different technical approaches. The intent of our project is not to duplicate the DARPA effort, but to focus on a specific task, which has quite different goals/objectives from DARPA. Below are links to two articles which describe the DARPA work:
https://herox.com/news/156-darpas-latest-goal-create-autonomous-bird-of-prey
https://www.engadget.com/2014/12/23/darpa-fast-lightweight-autonomy-uav/
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