NDLI: Near-Earth Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Sensor Suite Testing and Evaluation

Content Provider	The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Collection
Author	Narli, Vefa Paul, Y. Oh
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	This paper describes a test rig that is used to design and test sensor suites for unmanned air vehicles (UAV) operating in near-earth like environments such as forests, caves and urban canyons. The test rig employs a six degree-of-freedom gantry. Inside its workspace is a full-scale diorama of the environment. Surrounding the gantry are lamps, fans, and generators to reproduce lighting, rain and obscurants typical of such environments. A sensor pod is mounted at the gantry end-effector. The acquired data is fed into a high-fidelity math model of the real UAV. The output is then used to drive the gantry to move the sensor pod in the real world environment. The net effect is a hardware-in-the-loop system that emulates the real UAV’s motions and responses in near-Earth environments. The test rig is important because there is little to no data on sensor performance metrics of UAV in near-Earth environments.
Sponsorship	Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division
Starting Page	885
Ending Page	891
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0791842568
DOI	10.1115/DETC2006-99614
e-ISBN	079183784X
Volume Number	Volume 2: 30th Annual Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, Parts A and B
Conference Proceedings	ASME 2006 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
Language	English
Publisher Date	2006-09-10
Publisher Place	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Design Fans Degrees of freedom Caves Unmanned aerial vehicles End effectors Generators Hardware Mathematics Sensors Cities Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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