Mini UAV thinks for itself

摘要

Georgia Institute of Technology believes that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are one step closer to someday matching, and possibly surpassing, their human-piloted counterparts, due in part to the successful completion of a project sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Researchers from several partner institutions and organizations helped to build, test, and fly what is being billed as the the first rotary-wing UAV, a helicopter called GTMax. The UAV has proven capable of flight-control fault identification and reconfiguration, adaptive control, and agile maneuvering under a single-software architecture. Collaborators on the project include Draper Laboratories, Vanderbilt University, Scientific Systems, Oregon Graduate Institute, Honeywell, and Boeing.