Browsing by Supervisor "Tsourdos, Antonios"

Autonomous Collision avoidance for Unmanned aerial systems

Melega, Marco (Cranfield University, 2014)

Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) applications are growing day by day and this will lead Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in the close future to share the same airspace of manned aircraft.This implies the need for UAS to define ...

Behaviour monitoring: investigation of local and distributed approaches

Turchi, Dario (2017)

Nowadays, the widespread availability of cheap and eﬃcient unmanned systems (either aerial, ground or surface) has led to signiﬁcant opportunities in the ﬁeld of remote sensing and automated monitoring. On the one hand, ...

Cooperative control of multi-uavs under communication constraints.

Lee, Hae-In (2018-10)

This research aims to develop an analysis and control methodology for the multiple un-manned aerial vehicles (UAVs), connected over a communication network. The wireless communication network between the UAVs is vulnerable ...

Cooperative path planning and cooperative perception for UAVs swarm

Shah, M. A. (2012-02-02)

In this research Pythagorean Hodograph based path planning and camera based cooperative perception are investigated separately and then these two entirely separate areas (Path Planning and Perception) are integrated for ...

Decentralised multi-robot task allocation algorithms.

Segui-Gasco, Pau (2017)

Multi Robot Systems (MRS) are gaining increasing popularity both in the research community and in industry. A fundamental problem that underpins the effective coordinated operation of these systems is Task Allocation. To ...

Design and energy management of aircraft hybrid electric propulsion system.

Xie, Ye (2018-09)

This thesis investigates the design and development of a Hybrid Electric Propulsion System (HEPS) for aircraft. The main contributions of the study are the multi-objective system sizing and the two energy optimization ...

Develop a robust nonlinear controller for large aircraft by applying NDI, SMC and adaptive control

Zeng, Chao (Cranfield University, 2012-12)

A nonlinear dynamic inversion (NDI) controller and a sliding mode controller are developed for large civil transport Boeing 747 in this thesis. Furthermore adaptive control theory is applied on both NDI controller and ...

Development of model free flight control system using deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG)

Budiarti, Dewi H. (Cranfield UniversitySATM, 2019-09)

Developing a flight control system for a complete 6 degree-of-freedom for an air vehicle remains a huge task that requires time and effort to gather all the necessary data. This thesis proposes the use of reinforcement ...

Distributed target tracking over a low-cost sensor network.

He, Shaoming (2019-09)

Proliferation of low-cost, lightweight, and power efficient sensors and advances in networked systems enable the employment of multiple sensors. Distributed estimation provides a scalable and fault-robust fusion framework ...

Effective task allocation frameworks for large-scale multiple agent systems.

Jang, Inmo (2018-10)

This research aims to develop innovative and transformative decision-making frameworks that enable a large-scale multi-robot system, called robotic swarm, to autonomously address multi-robot task allocation problem: given ...

Energy efficient path planning and model checking for long endurance unmanned surface vehicles.

Niu, Hanlin (2017-09)

In this dissertation, path following, path planning, collision avoidance and model checking algorithms were developed and simulated for improving the level of autonomy for Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV). Firstly, four ...

Integrated approaches to handle UAV actuator fault

Lo, Chang How (Cranfield University, 2015-08)

Unmanned AerialVehicles (UAV) has historically shown to be unreliable when compared to their manned counterparts. Part of the reason is they may not be able to a ord the redundancies required to handle faults from system ...

Intelligent-based hybrid-electric propulsion system for aero vehicle

Wang, Siqi (Cranfield UniversitySATM, 2020-03)

To address the sustainability challenges for air transport, electrified aviation delivers promising benefits to the whole air transportation system. Focusing on reducing environmental impact and raising competitiveness, ...

Model checking for decision making behaviour of heterogeneous multi-agent autonomous system

Choi, J. (2013-09-25)

An autonomous system has been widely applied for various civil/military research because of its versatile capability of understanding high-level intent and direction of a surrounding environment and targets of interest. ...

Multiple agents routing and scheduling algorithms for network-based transportation systems.

Bae, Sangjun (2018-10)

This research attempts to develop effective and practical algorithms that enable multiple agents to address routing and scheduling problems simultaneously: given a set of initial points and final points for multiple agents ...

Nonlinear flight control with reduced model dependency

Byoung-Ju, Jeon (2020-05)

This thesis aims to innovate knowledge on nonlinear flight control algorithms with reduced model dependency by resolving the research gaps for practical applications. Two control schemes with different principles on reducing ...

Optimal on-board / off-board partitioning of integrated vehicle health management system.

Sydor, Piotr (2014-04)

The research presented in this thesis is intended to investigate and develop method to address optimal on-board / off-board partitioning of Integrated Health Management (IVHM) System. The problem of optimal on-board / ...

Path planning of multiple autonomous vehicles

Shanmugavel, M. (Cranfield UniversityDepartment of Aerospace, Power and Sensors, 2007-06-18)

Safe and simultaneous arrival of constant speed, constant altitude UAVs on target is solved by design of paths of equal lengths. The starting point of the solution is the well-known Dubins path which is composed of ...

Power management for energy harvesting

Alsader, Moner (Cranfield UniversitySATM, 2020-05)

The use of wireless sensor networks in aircraft health management grew exponentially over the past few decades. Wireless sensor networks provide technology that reduces the amount of wiring for aircraft, thereby reducing the ...

Prognostics for electronics components of avionics - NASA IGBT accelerated ageing case study

Xie, Yuan'an (Cranfield University, 2013-12)

Insulate gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) are widely used in electric vehicles, railway locomotive and new generation aircrafts, due to the IGBTs have advantages in small conduction resistance and small drive current. ...

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