Safe flying for an UAV helicopter

Author

Mancini, A. ; Caponetti, F. ; MonteriÙ, A. ; Frontoni, E. ; Zingaretti, P. ; Longhi, S.

Author_Institution

Univ. Politec. delle Marche, Ancona

fYear

2007

fDate

27-29 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Today small autonomous helicopters offer a low budget platform for aerial applications such as surveillance (both military and civil), land management and earth sciences. In this paper we introduce a prototype of autonomous aerial vehicle, the Helibot helicopter, specifically designed for applications in cooperative networks. Fundamental steps in the design process of an UAV are shown. We also present work in progress in the field of failure detection and a novel idea to the problem of failure recovery using a terrain vision system.

Keywords

aerospace robotics; air safety; aircraft control; helicopters; remotely operated vehicles; Helibot helicopter; UAV helicopter; autonomous aerial vehicle; cooperative networks; failure detection; safe flying; small autonomous helicopters; terrain vision system; Financial management; Geoscience; Helicopters; Military aircraft; Mobile robots; Process design; Prototypes; Remotely operated vehicles; Surveillance; Unmanned aerial vehicles; failure detection; flying/aerospace systems; mobile robotics; navigation and planning; sensor fusion; vision;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control & Automation, 2007. MED '07. Mediterranean Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1281-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1282-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MED.2007.4433946

Filename

4433946