Downloads
Movies
Coordinated Searching and Target Identification Using Teams of Autonomous Agents
Christopher Lum's PhD Dissertation along with movies and animations.
Date: 3/3/09
Particle Filter Estimation Technique
A short movie showing the progression of a particle filter as it attempts to estimate the state of a uav.
Date: 5/14/05
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Orbit Coordination
A short movie showing autonomous coordination of two UAVs as they attempt to achieve a circular orbit around a target with a 90 degree phase difference.
Date: 5/12/05
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Evolutionary Planning for Weather
A short movie illustrating evolutionary computation to compute feasible trajectories in changing weather patterns.
Date: 8/8/04
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ECoPS Dynamic Replanning
A short movie showing dynamic replanning and re-assignment of tasks in response to a changing environment.
Date: 6/10/04
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ECoPS Collision Avoidance
A short movie illustrating the capability for ECoPS to plan non-conflicting trajectories.
Date: 10/29/02
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Presentations
A Risk Based Paradigm and Model for Unmanned Aerial Systems in the National Airspace
Presented at the 2011 AIAA Infotech@Aerospace conference documenting a tool and methodology for estimating risk of a given UAS operation.
Date: 03/29/11
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From Aerosonde to Flexrotor: The Search for Small, Low Cost, High Performance UAVs
A presentation by Dr. Tad McGeer and Dr. Juris Vagners highlighting advances in UAV technology from the early Aerosonde to the recently developed Flexrotor.
Date: 10/22/10
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Unmanned Systems Research at the University of Washington Aeronautics and Astronautics Department
Presentation by Dr. Juris Vagners at the 2010 Cascade AUVSI chapter meeting.
Date: 02/26/10
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Coordinated Searching and Target Identification Using Teams of Autonomous Agents
Christopher Lum's final examination regarding autonomous searching and target identification.
Date: 03/03/09
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ECoPS and Marine Rules of the Road
A PowerPoint presentation showing ECoPS operating autonomous surface vehicles in compliance with marine rules of the road.
Date: 06/08/07
Research at the AFSL
A PowerPoint presentation regarding some of the major research projects currently under investigation at the Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory.
Date: 9/19/05
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Orbit Coordination
A PowerPoint presentation highlighting some of the work with autonomous orbit coordination of multiple vehicles.
Date: 9/19/05
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ECoPS
A PowerPoint presentation highlighting some of the work with Evolutionary Based Cooperative Planning System (ECoPS).
Date: 9/19/05
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Probabilistic Searching & Target ID
A PowerPoint presentation highlighting some of the work with probability based searching and target identification project.
Date: 9/19/05
DownloadFrom Aerosonde to Flexrotor: The Search for Small, Low Cost, High Performance UAVs
A presentation by Dr. Tad McGeer and Dr. Juris Vagners highlighting advances in UAV technology from the early Aerosonde to the recently developed Flexrotor.
Date: 10/22/10
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A Step in the Evolution of the Autonomous Flight: The Transatlantic Flight of the Aerosonde Laima
A talk by Dr. Tad McGeer and Dr. Juris Vagners summarizing the state of autonomous systems in 2005 which culminated in the autonomous crossing of the Atlantic ocean by an Aerosonde UAV.
Date: 03/02/05
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