Autopilot Design for Software-in-the-Loop Validation of Fixed-wing UAV Guidance Laws

UnmannedAerial Vehicles(UAVs) have multi-domain applications and fixed-wing UAVs are a widely used class. There is ongoing research on topics in view to optimize the control and guidance of UAVs. This work explores the design, implementation and Software-in-the-Loop validation of an autopilot using adaptive guidance laws with emphasis on...

Soliton Interpretation of Arterial Blood Pressure Waveform: Derivation, Verification of Korteweg-de Vries type Dynamics and Application of Nonlinear Fourier Analysis

As a nonlinear alternative to the linear interpretation of arterial blood pressure waveform, soliton theory has been proposed to model arterial blood pressure by interpreting the pulsatile nature of pressure pulses in the viewpoint of soliton transmission. The existing solitary wave literature supports this interpretation by deriving Korteweg-de...

Wheel slip and orientation drift correction for the relative localization system of a ship hull cleaning robot

Fleet Cleaner B.V. is a company that specializes in the cleaning of ship hulls of oceanic trade vessels using a mobile robot. The mobile robot mainly operates out of sight of the operator, making accurate localization of the robot crucial to its operation. However, the absence of absolute localization and sources for error build-up like wheel...

Improved Fast Inverse Nonlinear Fourier Transform for Multi-solitons: A Discrete Darboux Based Approach

The relation between the input of an ideal optical single-mode fiber and the corresponding fiber output constitutes a nonlinear system that can be described using the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. This nonlinear system has the interesting property that it can be solved analytically using nonlinear Fourier transforms. To utilize this property,...