MAV08, Agra, India Tomonari Furukawa1

Micro Aerial Vehicles for Search, Tracking and Reconnaissance

(MAVSTAR)

Computational Mechanics and RoboticsARC Centre of Excellence in Autonomous

SystemsThe University of New South Wales

Australia

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MAV Platform

Carbon blades•4 plies•45deg/0deg/0deg/45deg

Carbon frames•3 plies•0deg/90deg/0deg

•Fully custom-made•Low cost (US$500)

Camera

Battery Ultrasonic sensor

GPS

Video Transmitter

IMU

Flybar

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Indoor and Outdoor Performance

Indoor flight

Indoor flight

Outdoor flight

Outdoor flight

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UGV: Mechanical

• Custom-made frame

4WD

Off-road capability

Able to climb steps

• 14km/h

• 1 hour run time

• Directional Microphone

Hostage Detection

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Original Strategy

• 4 Remote control MAVs• 4 Autonomous UGVs• BS

Strategy:• 1 MAV takes off from the IP• 2 MAVs are carried by UGV• 1 MAV stays in IP

MAV tasks:• Search and locate for obstacles, mines, guard and hostage• Search, locate and defuse mines and locate hostage

UGV tasks:• Relay MAVs’ signals• Search and locate obstacles, guard and hostage• Deactivate mines

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Aerial Demo

• MAVs could hover under wind (<20km/h)

• One of our custom-made UGVs could go around 500m

• One mine was located and inactivated

• Serious communication problems

• Serial data communication (2.4GHz, Xbee Pro) for MAV only work for 20m,

probably caused by external and unknown 2.4GHz transmitters.

(Note that our pervious tests showed that the range is more than 1km)

• Video transmission only work for UGV for 500m

• Power problem

• Power is off during the demo and all desktop computers shut down and

recovered in 5 mins

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Acknowledgements

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)

DSTODefence Science and Technology Organisation