The Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technologies Group

Group Leader: Professor Patrick Doherty

The Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Technology Group (UAVTech) was officially formed in January, 2004. The group and its activities grew out of the WITAS UAV Project (1997-2004). The UAVTech group consists of a multi-disciplinary constellation of researchers with backgrounds in control theory, aeronautical engineering, signal processing, computer science, artificial intelligence, and software engineering.

The UAVTech group is currently structured into three tightly integrated subgroups, each with a subgroup leader:

Autonomy Subgroup

Subgroup Leader: Professor Patrick Doherty

Members:

Fredrik Heintz
David Landen
Per Nyblom
Jonas Kvarnström
Martin Magnusson
Per-Magnus Olsson
Andrzej Szalas
Mariusz Wzorek

The UAVTech-Autonomy group is responsible for basic and applied research associated with reactive and deliberative functionalites used in both the ground operator and on-board systems. Topics include, but are not limited to, knowledge representation, automated task-based planning, trajectory planning, diagnosis, execution monitoring, predictive mechanisms, approximate reasoning systems, temporal and action-based reasoning systems, sensor and information fusion, GIS, chronicle recognition, cooperative robotics and network-centric systems.

Perception and Control Subgroup

Subgroup Leader: Professor Patrick Doherty

Members:

Simone Duranti
Gianpaolo Conte
Maria Hempel
David Lundström
Lukasz Majewski
Piotr Rudol
Rafal Zalewski

The UAVTech-PerCon group is responsible for basic and applied research associated with low-level control and low- and mid-level perception. The group is also responsible for the development of the integrated hardware and sensor platform which serves as the basis for kernal autonomy. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, development and integration of various flight control modes, visual navigation, SLAM and cooperative SLAM, active vision systems, real-time communication, and development of mini- and micro UAVS.

Software Systems Subgroup

Subgroup Leader: Professor Patrick Doherty

Members:

Tommy Persson
Björn Wingman

The UAVTech-Soft group is responsible for basic and applied research and system development associated with hybrid robotic software architectures which support real-time integration of deliberative, reactive, control and sensor functionality. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, distributed, concurrent software architectures, CORBA-based architectures, information and knowledge processing middleware, and software support for cooperative robotics and network-centric systems. The group is also responsible for the development and support of the current CORBA-based distributed architecture used and deployed in our UAV platforms.

Previous Members

Patrik Haslum
Torsten Merz
Per-Olof Pettersson

Last changed: 16-May-2007 11:16 AM