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Avionic Control Systems for Education and Development

This paper describes, explains and evaluates two avionic control systems for education and development, which have been implemented as educational tools for subjects in the study path Information Technology for Aerospace...

Nils Gageik, Atheel Redah und Sergio Montenegro

01/2012 INTED Conference

Obstacle Detection and Collision Avoidance using Ultrasonic Distance Sensors for Autonomous Quadrocopter

A simple approach for obstacle detection and collision avoidance of an autonomous flying quadrocopter using low-cost ultrasonic sensors and simple data fusion...

Nils Gageik, Thilo Müller und Sergio Montenegro

11/2012 UAVveek Workshop

Data Fusion Principles for Height Control and Autonomous Landing of a Quadrocopter

A simple algorithm (weighted filter) for data fusion of multiple sensors to obtain the most reliable value...

Nils Gageik, Julian Rothe und Sergio Montenegro

11/2012 UAVveek Workshop

Waypoint Flight Parameter Comparison of an Autonomous UAV

The present paper compares the effect of different waypoint parameters on the flight performance of a special autonomous indoor UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) fusing ultrasonic, inertial, pressure and optical sensors for 3D positioning and controlling...

Nils Gageik, Michael Strohmeier und Sergio Montenegro

05/2013 IJAIA Vol.4 Nr.3 Journal

An Autonomous UAV with an Optical Flow Sensor for Positioning and Navigation

A procedure to control all six DOF (degrees of freedom) of a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) without an external reference system and to enable fully autonomous flight...

Nils Gageik, Michael Strohmeier und Sergio Montenegro

10/2013 Intech IJARS Journal

Autonomous Quadrocopter for Search, Count and Localization of Objects

The present paper describes and evaluates the design and implementation of a fully autonomous quadrocopter, which is capable of self-reliant search, count and localization of a predefined object on the ground inside a room...

Nils Gageik, Christian Reul and Sergio Montenegro

11/2013 UAV World Conference

A Review on Distributed Control Of Cooperating Mini UAVs

... This paper presents an overview of the main aspects in the domain of distributed control of cooperating MUAVs to facilitate the potential users in this fascinating field. Furthermore it gives an overview on state of the art in MUAV technologies e.g. Photonic Mixer Devices (PMD) camera, distributed control methods and on-going work and challenges...

Nils Gageik, Christian Reul and Sergio Montenegro

05/2014 IJAIA Vol.5 Nr.4 Journal

Complementary Vision Based Data Fusion for Robust Positioning and Directed Flight of an Autonomous Quadrocopter

The present paper describes an improved 4 DOF (x/y/z/yaw) vision based positioning solution for fully 6 DOF autonomous UAVs, optimised in terms of computation and development costs as well as robustness and performance...

Nils Gageik, Eric Reinthal, Paul Benz und Sergio Montenegro

09/2014 IJAIA Vol.5 Nr.5 Journal

Obstacle Detection and Collision Avoidance for a UAV With Complementary Low-Cost Sensors

This paper demonstrates an innovative and simple solution for obstacle detection and collisionavoidance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) optimized for and evaluated with quadrotors...

Nils Gageik, Paul Benz and Sergio Montenegro

05/2015 IEEE Access Journal