UAS Sensors and Data Collection

While writing the paper on Neural Networks and drones, I learned a lot about the writing process of a literature review paper. Many of the things that I learned can be applied to different literature review papers as well as general papers. Data Collection I found it very helpful to begin by collecting as many articles as I could on neural networks and drones. I did this by using the schools data bases and google scholar. To help aid me in finding as many different papers as possible I developed a list of key words to search for. The list of them for the vehicle part were, Drones, UAV, UAS, SUAS, unmanned systems, aircraft, helicopter, multi rotor. These helped narrow the search down to the type of application I wanted to see neural networks in. Neural networks also had a list of key words that allowed me to gain a few more articles, those keywords were, Neural network, Artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning. Those all corresponded to what type of research I wanted...

While writing a paper on the uses of neural networks and drones I learned a lot about the advantages and disadvantages of them. These allow for a better understanding of when it is appropriate to use one with a drone and when it is ineffective to use one. Advantages The main advantages with using a neural network come from using a vision based system to aid the drone in operation. The vision system can be used for tracking people, perfecting landings, and even counting cows. The benefits of using a neural network is that it can reduce the complexity of operations, or it can improve the efficiency of the operations. These are the main functions for any additional software for drones, and a neural network is a much more specific software. In applications like counting cows, the neural network is ground based, and is just processing on a computer to analyze the data post flight. It does this through image filtering, figure 1, and that allows the computer to count the number of cows. Th...

Project overview To get the benefits of mission planner on a asw28 2.5m motor glider, a few important hardware setup details will allow for a better preforming aircraft. This installation of a mission planner based flight controller will allow for autonomous soaring, where the aircraft automatically senses lift and trys to stay in that thermal. Another feature that mission planner allows for is return to home, and with a large sailplane, some thermals can take them out of sight. Figure 1. Stock asw 28 sailplane Aircraft current status: The aircraft is currently a stock ASW 28 v2, it has a motor and esc/bec combo, with 6 servos. The 6 servos actuate the ailerons, flaps, rudder and elevator. With the independent servos for the ailerons and flaps, it allows for the aircraft to use crow on landings. Crow is where the ailerons both move upward and the flaps drop down, this causes an immense amount of drag, which aides in the landing of the aircraft. Hardware to be installed To a...