Team VaCAS developed a cooperative unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) system for MAGIC 2010 competition. The system includes a cooperative estimation and control strategy, its software, UGVs and the so-called platform- and hardware-in-the-loop simulator (PHILS) which allows the performance evaluation of multi-UGV system in a virtual environment. Team VaCAS also constructed outdoor and indoor test areas for June site demonstration. Out of the developments, a cooperative estimation and control strategy, which ...
This project developed a new approach with theoretical and experimental framework to automatically and rapidly quantify invisible defects in a composite structure through enhanced analysis of data from ultrasonic non-destructive inspection methods. The objectives of this project were to develop rapid automated techniques to: Interrogate output from ultrasonic NDI equipment to identify the presence of defects, Identify the type of defect, in particular delamination, disbanding, foreign body inclusions and porosity ...
The aim of this project is to develop a new approach to automatically and rapidly quantifying invisible defects in a composite structure through enhanced analysis of data from ultrasonic nondestructive inspection (NDI) methods. Technically, the project is aimed at developing rapid automated techniques that interrogate output from ultrasonic NDI equipment to identify the presence of defects in composite structures. The complexity of composite materials and structures make return signals complex ...
The aim of this project is to achieve multi-fidelity analysis for the multi-objective control of a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with humans in the loop of the estimation and control framework. The successful participation of humans in the loop for dynamically changing environments depends heavily on the reliability of data measured and information constructed by the UAVs. The multi-fidelity analysis proposed in the project enables real-time adjustment for ...
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