Unmanned Aerial Vehicles When We Can File-n-Fly ?!

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles When We Can File-n-Fly ?!

YangQuan Chen, Ph.D., Director, MESA (Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation)LAB

MEAM/EECS, School of Engineering,University of California, Merced

E: [email protected]; or, [email protected]: (209)228-4672; O: SE1-254; Lab: Castle #22 (T: 228-4398)

Oct. 03, 2012. Wednesday 12:30-13:20SoE Professional Seminar, COB 265

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SoE Professional Seminar "UAV: When we can file-n-fly?!"

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Outline• About the new MESA Lab• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles• When we can file-n-fly?• When we can file-n-fly!

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MESA LABhttp://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu

• Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation – Backup name: Mechatronics, Energy Systems and

Autonomy– ASME DED, MESA TC. http://iel.ucdavis.edu/mesa/

• 2013 MESA conference: Portland, OR http://www.asmeconferences.org/IDETC2013/

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MESA Lab Philosophy and Ambition• "We make real systems that work and others

want them."• MESA Lab: Staying on top and for

sustainability.

• Nationally and internationally visible and prominent!

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MESA Lab Founding Members• Dr. YangQuan Chen, Faculty

– Dr. Huifang Dou, Lecturer– Brandon Stark, 3rd year Ph.D. student, Lab Manager– 3 visiting research scholars– 4 undergraduate researchers– 2013 (5 more confirmed)

• 1 Ph.D. to join 1/1/2013, 1 Ph.D. to join 5/1/2013• 1 Postdoc to join Fall 2013• 2 more visiting scholars to join in 2013

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MESA Research Areas/Strengths• Unmanned Aerial Systems and UAV-based

Personal Remote Sensing (PRS)• Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)• Modeling and Control of Renewable Energy

Systems• Mechatronics• Applied Fractional Calculus (AFC)

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Kevin Craig, Marquette Univ.

Mechatronics

has good prospects for the future because knowledge economy demands to speed up development, improve quality, reduce cost and increase energy efficiency.

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UAV: Unmanned Aerial VehicleAlso called Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS),an aircraft that is controlled by Navigation electronics without human pilot on board.

Figure: Global Hawk UAV

http://www.wpclipart.com/armed_services/airplanes/airplanes_3/Global_Hawk_UAV.png

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UAV History• The first “claimed” heavier-than-air, powered flight was of a

UAV, over the Potomac River, by Dr. Sam Langley (1896)• The first radio-controlled UAV flights were converted Navy

trainers, flown over Long Island (1917)• The first mass production UAV was the Kettering Bug,

costing $400 and capable of carrying a 300 lb bomb (1918)• The British Queen Bee UAV was landed by dragging a

weighted antenna line on the ground, which then pulled back the stick and the throttle (1935)

• 4 UAVs with 2000 lb bombs attacked the Japanese merchantman, Yamazuki Maru, scoring two direct hits (1944)

• Marilyn Monroe was “discovered” while working in the Radioplane OQ-3 UAV factory (1945)

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UAV HistoryKettering Bug

(1918)Aerial Torpedo

Radioplane 0Q-2A (1935)

Culver PQ-14B (1940)

Target dronesUAV UAV

UAV

Pre World War II

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D21 Tagboard onM12 Mother Ship

Lightning Bug AQM-34

1960sReconnaissance UAVs

UAV UAV

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1970sCombat UAVs - Have Lemon AQM-34

EO Maverick EO HoboUAVUAV

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1970s

Boeing YQM-94A B-Gull

Teledyne Ryan YQM-96A R-Tern

Endurance 28 hrs 11 min Un-refueled

Reconnaissance(Recce) UAVs

Compass Cope - High Altitude

Long Endurance (HALE)

UAV

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1970s

HiMAT YF-16 RPRV

Self-RepairingFlight Control Sys.XBQM-106

Flight Research UAVs

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1980sTactical and Medium Endurance UAVsPioneer - USN/USMC US Army Hunter

GNAT-750 MR - UAV

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1990sDARO UAVs

Outrider (TUAV) Predator (Tier II)

Global Hawk (Tier II+) Dark Star (Tier III-)

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Global Hawk & Predator

Outrider (TUAV

Global Hawk (Tier II+) Dark Star (Tier III-)

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• Military applications• Civilian applications

UAV Applications

MESA LABUAV Military Applications

• Reconnaissance Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA)

• Surveillance for peacetime and combat Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

• Deception operations• Maritime operations (Naval fire

support, over the horizon targeting, anti-ship missile defense, ship classification)

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UAV Military Applications• Electronic Warfare (EW) and signals

intelligence (SIGINT)• Special and psychological Operations

(PSYOPS)• Meteorology missions• Route and landing reconnaissance support• Adjustment of indirect fire and Close Air

Support (CAS)• Battle Damage Assessment (BDA)• Radio and data relay

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UAV Military Applications

http://baronshobbies.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/uav4tf3.jpghttp://media.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/AIR_UAV_RQ-4_Global_Hawk_High_Flight_lg.jpg

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UAV Civilian ApplicationsSecurity• Security and Control• Aerial Reconnaissance• Aerial Policeman and Crowd Monitoring• Aerial Traffic and Security Watch

Search and Rescue• Maritime and Mountain Search and Rescue• Life raft Deployment• Rescue point marking

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UAV Civilian Applications

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Air_Force_U-2_reconnaissance_aircraft.jpghttp://img2.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0906/choppers.in.mountain.jpeghttp://uscgalaska.blogspot.com/2010/07/air-station-kodiak-hh-65-dolphin.html

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UAV Civilian ApplicationsMonitoring• Civil engineering sites• Waterways and shipping• Oil and gas pipeline• Forestry• Fishery Protection• The countryside• Pollution Control and Air Sampling• Crop Performance• Litter on beaches and in parks

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http://www.ouc.com/Libraries/OUC_Images/stanton3.sflb.ashx http://www.britannica.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/pipeline.jpg http://www.agronomy.k-state.edu/extension/DesktopModules/IM.aspx?I=3298&M=0

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Disaster Management• Disaster effects management• Rescue and clear up effort supervision• Disaster damage estimation

Crop Management• Countryside and Agriculture• Agricultural Activities• Crop Dusting

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UAV Civilian ApplicationsCommunications• Telecommunications• Telecom relay and signal coverage survey

Survey• Oil and Gas Exploration and Production• Mineral exploration• Geophysical surveys

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http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/161.jpg http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Verenex-Energy-oil.jpg

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http://med.ee.nd.edu/MED9/Papers/Aerial_vehicles/med01-164.pdfhttp://www.spyplanes.com/pages_new/products.htm

ResearchScientific research of any nature (environmental, atmospheric, archaeological, pollution etc) can be carried out by UAVs equipped with the appropriate payloads.

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Introduction to Paparazzi ProjectPaparazzi is an open-source autopilot system oriented toward inexpensive autonomous aircraft of all types. The project began in 2003 and has enjoyed constant growth and evolution ever since. The system has been used on dozens of airframes and implemented by several teams around the world. Hundreds of hours of autonomous flight have been successfully achieved with the Paparazzi system.

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Overview of the Paparazzi system

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Airborne components• Autopilot• Battery• Datalink• GPS• Infrared (Original)• Motor• Payload• Receiver• Servo

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System Architecture

AircraftSends telemetry messages

Receives datalink messages

Communications between the Paparazzi Agents

Wireless link

LinkConnects a hardware

Wireless device to the network

Messages (Debug)Display network messages

ServerLogs raw messages

Dispatches synthetic messages

GCSDisplays graphic dataControls the datalink

Data is sent with messagesDivided into 3 classes:

- Telemetry- Ground- Datalink

datalink

telemetry

telemetry

ground ground groundGround network

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OSAM UAV Team won 2nd @ AUVSI UAS Competition, June 2008

Utah State – Wins $8,000 for 2nd Place Overall, 2nd Place in Mission, Honorable Mention in both Orals and Journal, and Prize Barrels for Autonomous Mission Flight, Autonomous Landing, JAUS and Perfect Identification of the Off-Path Target.

http://www.engr.usu.edu/wiki/index.php/OSAMSoE Professional Seminar "UAV: When we can file-n-fly?!"


• We won #1 in AUVSI 2009 UAS Competition!!– June 17-21, 2009. Maryland AFB.– $14000 cash award.– Other registered participants: UCSD, MIT, Cornell, NCSU etc.– We made some headlines including ESPN2!– We are the second time to participate this event!– UCSD, Embry Riddle,Cornell, U Alberta, UT Austin.

Watch us at http://www.youtube.com/user/USUOSAM SoE Professional Seminar "UAV: When we can file-n-fly?!"


• We won #1 again in AUVSI’11 UAS Competition!!– June 15-19, 2011. Maryland AFB.– $13400 cash award. Swept all three categories.– Other registered participants: UCSD, NCSU, UT Austin etc.– First time in the competition history to win 1st place twice.– VTOL team made history too by flying waypoints autonomously

Watch our UAV-based real world applications (not just for fun!) at http://aggieair.usu.edu SoE Professional Seminar "UAV: When we can file-n-fly?!"

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FAA: Federal Aviation Administration• Illegal flight unless authorized! (COA)• Too hard to get COA (certification of authorization)

• Private company (university) cannot get COA! Only possible for government departments (public universities)!

• A sample COA we got is at http://aggieair.usu.eduSoE Professional Seminar "UAV: When we can file-n-fly?!"

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FAA Retasking• In the United States, lawmakers just passed a long

awaited bill setting requirements to integrate unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in the national airspace (NAS) on Feb. 6, 2012. Such requirements would set deadlines for full-scale integration in fall 2015.

• NASA UAS2NAS $12.5M (only two universities awarded: USU and NMSU


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When we can file-n-fly!

The new era of Personal Remote Sensing (PRS)!


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MESA LABAn Analogy

• 1970s: Personal Computer (PC): Bill Gates/Steve Jobs

• 2010s: Personal Remote Sensing (PRS) - ????– Low cost, affordable. Robust, easy to use– Run way free; Autonomous/cognitive– Swarm/coven; – Enabling new apps and services

• Google 4D map (x,y,z,t) paid service– Ubiquitous remote sensing (Twitter as sensors …)– …

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WaterWatch?

Geo-Domain

Water resources,Gates, flumes

Weather, climate

demand

Irrigation control

human

crops animals

etc.

Water rights UAVs

Ground sensor pods

irrigators

calibration

www.athertonsc.qld.gov.au/ photogallery.htm

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0729soilshowdown.html

Credit: Dr. YangQuan Chen, 2005

• Right time• Right place• Right amount


http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/images/content/95621main_Very-Dry-field.jpg

MESA LABA water treatment lagoon as a UAS-enabled

CPS to create biofuel from waste


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Algal Bloom Tracking & Modeling

MESA LABAgriculture in 2100s

when no more synthetic fertilizers available


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MESA LABKey references

• Long Di and YangQuan Chen. “Multi UAV Systems.” Course slide set for ECE6930 Independent Study Course. pp. 1-850. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University, 2009-2011.

• [1]. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, AIRCRAFT DESIGN (ASE 261K) and DESIGN LABORATORY (ASE 161M), Dr. Armand J. Chaput. http://www.ae.utexas.edu/ASE261KChaput/


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UAV PRS References• Y.Q. Chen, D. L. Dee, A. Jenson, Multi-UAV Based

Multi-Spectrum Collaborative Personal Remote Sensing: Concepts, Platform & Applications, Invited Full Day Tutorial at 2011 ICUAS, Denver, CO, (2011)

• Y.Q. Chen, A. Jenson, G. Strahan, C. Coopmans, Low-Cost UAV-based precision thermal infrared (TIR) mapping – A new Personal Remote Sensing capability: UAV Platform, TIR Payload, in-flight calibration and applications, Invited Full Day Tutorial at 2012 ICUAS, Philadelphia, PA, (2012)


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$949.001800 pages

2013

Two chapters from MESA

Lab!


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IEEE RAS TC ARUAV• http://www.flyingrobots.org


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Thank you for attending my talk!

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http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/ coming soon


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