The Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles

The Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles

The Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles

The Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned VehiclesThe Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles

7 April 2010

Cooperative Mobile Sensing Systems

A Center for Research and Education

Sensor Flock

Controlled Mobility

MobileNetworks

Extreme Environments

Small UAS

NAS Operations

AUGNet

VORTEX2

Cooperative Mobile Sensing Systems

POLAR

WILDFIRE

STORM

Personnel & Resources 10 Core Faculty from 4 Departments and Programs 18 Graduate Students and 13 Undergraduate $3.5M in Active Funding 4 Industry Sponsors, NOAA Partner Developing Unmanned Systems Grad Curriculum ISEE: Integrated Remote and In situ Sensing System

Research Areas1. Mission-Derived sUAS Design2. Mobile Ad Hoc Communications3. Vehicle-Sensor Integration4. Mobile Sensor Networks5. Cooperative UAS Teams6. Airspace Integration

Industry Collaborations

Sponsor BenefitsAdvisory Board Membership

IP and Patent Agreements

Faculty and Student Access

Facilities for Fabrication, Simulation, and Flight-Tests

Industry Sponsors

Our GA Aircraft

A Vision for Civilian Applications

http://cauas.colorado.edu

Table Mountain Flight Test Site

UAV Nodes

Mobile Nodes

Meshed RadioNetwork

Fixed Site 1

Fixed Site 2

Test Bed Gateway and Test Range IP Router

Range Network

Table Mountain Field Site

University of Colorado

Monitor Server

RemoteMonitor Internet

UAV Nodes

Mobile Nodes

Meshed RadioNetwork

Fixed Site 1

Fixed Site 2

Test Bed Gateway and Test Range IP Router

Range Network

Table Mountain Field Site

University of Colorado

Monitor Server

RemoteMonitor Internet

UAV Nodes

Mobile Nodes

Meshed RadioNetwork

Fixed Site 1

Fixed Site 2

Test Bed Gateway and Test Range IP Router

Range Network

Table Mountain Field Site

University of Colorado

Monitor Server

RemoteMonitor Internet

3 Active FAA Certificates of Authorization or Waiver (COAs)

RECUV Projects

• Current Research Programs– Mothership / Daughtership Architectures for In Situ

Science by Robotic Sensor Networks – Loosely Cooperating Micro Air Vehicle Networks

for Toxic Plume Characterization– An Integrated Framework for Controlled Mobility in

Ad Hoc Networks– Networked System Test Bed Integration and Test– RI: Information-theoretic Control of Robotic Sensor

Networks– Remote Operation of UAS and Technologies for

Command, Control, Communication, and Computers

– UAS for In-Situ Sensing along Atmospheric Airmass Boundaries

– Wing-Integrated Antennas for UA– Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes

Experiment (VORTEX2)

• Funding Sources– National Science Foundation

Robotics, Atmospheric Sciences, Polar Programs, Information Technology

– Air Force Office of Scientific Research– Air Force Materiel Command– Federal Aviation Administration– Industry Partners

Raytheon IIS, Mosaic ATM, First RF Corp., MLB Co.

Networked System Test Bed IntegrationT. Brown, B. Argrow, E. Frew, H. GatesSponsors: USAF, L3 Communications

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Advanced Airborne ISR with Small UAS

Project Partner:Northrup Grumman

Electronic Systems Division

Flight ExperimentsFAA 2008 WSA-43 COA

A Closer Look

Integrated Framework For Controlled Mobility in Ad Hoc NetworksE. Frew, T. BrownSponsor: AFOSR

Exploit mobility control to mitigate physical, link, and network layer effects in stressed or fractured networks

Controlled Mobility: C2 Integration

Flight ExperimentsFAA 2008 WSA-1 COA

Cooperative Algorithms

Application Layer Communication Protocols

Sensor, Communication, and Control Fusion

Data Routing and Network Configuration

Physical and Transport Layers

Heterogeneous Unmanned Aircraft SystemE. Frew, D. Lawrence,B. Argrow

Sponsor: Raytheon IIS

Remote Management of UAS Teams

Wing Antenna Integration for Small UAS: Phase 2B. Argrow

Sponsor: USAF SBIR Phase 2 with First RF Corp.

Structure-Integrated Antenna for Small UAS

Embedded low-frequency antenna in composite wing structure

Navigation integrated with mission planning, support tools, and operator

UAS Ground Operations Management SystemE. Frew

Sponsor: USAF Phase-2 SBIR, Mosaic ATM

Navigation Solution for GPS-Denied Ground Navigation

Autonomous UAS for Sensing and SurveillanceD. Lawrence

Sponsor: NSF

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Vector Field Guidance Multi-Vehicle CooperationWide Area Search Vehicles

Source Finding Vehicles

Plume Boundary Finding Vehicles

Toxic plume source

Micro Avionics

Integrated Mobile Sensing for Emergency Response

Special-Purpose Small Vehicles

Sea Ice Roughness as an Indicator of Fundamental Changes in the Arctic Ice Cover

J. Maslanik, C. Fowler, Sponsor: NASA

Surface Profiling of Sea Ice Roughness

LIDAR profiling and imaging (optical and synthetic aperture radar). Vertical scales from 10 cm to 10s of meters, horizontal scale of 50 cm or better for ice thickness and type estimations

NASA SIERRA UAS flights planned for

Svalbard, summer 2009 Payload sensor integration into Insight ScanEagle/A20

as backup UAS

MULti-Sensor Cryospheric Observation eXperimentJ. Maslanik, I. Crocker, J. Adler, B. Weatherhead,

Sponsors: NOAA, NASA

Outflow Glacier Mapping

Surface topographic mapping via LIDAR ranging and imaging, combined with precise aircraft attitude and position determination

Field deployment and flights over Ilulissat Glacier using ACR Manta UAS in June, 2008

Oceanic Responses to Mesoscale Atmospheric Circulation in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica

J. Cassano (CIRES), J. Maslanik, S. Palo, Sponsor: NSF

Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Surface Mapping in Antarctic Coastal Areas

Atmospheric profiling, energy balance observations and surface mapping using 20-hour, multi-aircraft Aerosonde missions from McMurdo Base, planned for late winter 2009

AAI Aerosonde UAS optimized for maximum range and Antarctic winter flying conditions

VORTEX2B. Argrow, E. Frew

Sponsor : NSF

Largest and most ambitious field experiment in history to explore tornadoes

NOAA and NSF sponsors

100 scientists and students

16 universities and academic organizations

NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) forecast offices, NOAA Storm Prediction Center, Environment Canada, Australia Bureau of Meteorology and Finland

http://www.vortex2.org/home/

Vortical Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment

VORTEX2B. Argrow, E. Frew

Sponsor : NSF

VORTEX2 COAs

http://tornadochaser.colorado.edu

Green: Active Yellow: Pending

Remote Operation of UAS and Technologies for C4B. Argrow, T. Brown

Sponsor: FAA

New: Role of Cognitive Radio inRemote Operation of UAS

T. Brown, D. SickerSponsor: FAA

UAS Command, Communication, Control, Computing

A Center for Research and Education

RECUVEducators, researchers,

engineers, scientists, motivated students

developing Cooperative Mobile Sensing Systems

Engineering Science

Society

Security

Access and Persistence

MobileSensingSystems

EmergencyResponse

Research Laboratory Partners

New Productsand

Discovered Markets

Monitoring&

Forecasting

New Public and Environmental

Policies

New Systemsand Applications

http://recuv.colorado.edu

POCBrian ArgrowProfessor and Associate DeanDept. Aerospace Engineering Sciences429 UCBUniversity of ColoradoBoulder, CO 80309brian.argrow@colorado.edu303-492-5312