Autonomous Aero-Robot and Disaster Response

  • Inoue, Koichi (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Sangyo University) ;
  • Nakanishi, Hiroaki (Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University)
  • Published : 2003.10.01

Abstract

After a not-widely-known fact is revealed that Japan is a leading country in production and use of industrial unmanned helicopters, a kind of UAV. The voice command system and the autonomous flight control system with a variety of control algorithms including neural network, robust and adaptive control that have been developed in collaboration between Kyoto University and Yamaha Motor Co., and funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Japan are described in some detail. Both already-proven and promising future applications of the autonomous unmanned helicopters are given.

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