The Design Fabrication and Flight Testing of an Academic Research Platform for High Resolution Terrain Imaging

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dc.contributor.advisorHubbard, James Een_US
dc.contributor.authorBillingsley, David Danielen_US
dc.contributor.departmentAerospace Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-06T06:01:48Z
dc.date.available2011-07-06T06:01:48Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis addresses the design, construction, and flight testing of an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) created to serve as a testbed for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) research topics that require the rapid acquisition and processing of high resolution aerial imagery and are to be performed by academic research institutions. An analysis of the requirements of various ISR research applications and the practical limitations of academic research yields a consolidated set of requirements by which the UAS is designed. An iterative design process is used to transition from these requirements to cycles of component selection, systems integration, flight tests, diagnostics, and subsystem redesign. The resulting UAS is designed as an academic research platform to support a variety of ISR research applications ranging from human machine interaction with UAS technology to orthorectified mosaic imaging. The lessons learned are provided to enable future researchers to create similar systems.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/11576
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAerospace Engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledRoboticsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledComputer Visionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDesignen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBuilden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFlyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHigh Resolution Imagingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIntelligenceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSurveillance and Reconnaissanceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUnmanned Aerial Vehicleen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUnmanned Aircraft Systemsen_US
dc.titleThe Design Fabrication and Flight Testing of an Academic Research Platform for High Resolution Terrain Imagingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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