Seamless navigation has attracted lots of attention and many methods have been reported in the literature or made available as commercial applications.The process of navigation can be interpreted as a continuous movem...Seamless navigation has attracted lots of attention and many methods have been reported in the literature or made available as commercial applications.The process of navigation can be interpreted as a continuous movement of 3D objects from one unoccupied 3D indoor/outdoor space to another.From a technical perspective,a 3D navigation model is one of the critical components that should be available to perform successful navigation.A major approach to build a unified navigation model to support seamless path computation is linking indoor navigation networks to outdoor road/street-based networks.Because of different sources of indoor and outdoor navigation networks,the major approach fails to build up true seamless navigation models.With regards to this,we propose a unified 3D space-based navigation model(U3DSNM).The presented model ensures all types of spaces for navigation(indoor,semi-indoor,semi-outdoor,and outdoor)have the same representation,management methods,and network derivation approach,thereby building up unified navigation networks to support seamless navigation paths planning.The model can be linked to the international standards(data models)that are also based on spaces,such as IndoorGML and the on-going version of CityGML 3.0.Three navigation path planning cases show the feasibility of U3DSNM.展开更多
Robotic unmanned blimps own an enormous potential for applications in low-speed and low-altitude exploration, surveillance, and monitoring, as well as telecommunication relay platforms. To make lighter-than-air platfo...Robotic unmanned blimps own an enormous potential for applications in low-speed and low-altitude exploration, surveillance, and monitoring, as well as telecommunication relay platforms. To make lighter-than-air platform a robotic blimp with significant levels of autonomy, the decoupled longitude and latitude dynamic model is developed, and the hardware and software of the flight control system are designed and detailed. Flight control and navigation strategy and algorithms for waypoint flight problem are discussed. A result of flight experiment is also presented, which validates that the flight control system is applicable and initial machine intelligence of robotic blimp is achieved.展开更多
基金support for this work comes from the program of China Scholarships Council[grant number 201606410054].
文摘Seamless navigation has attracted lots of attention and many methods have been reported in the literature or made available as commercial applications.The process of navigation can be interpreted as a continuous movement of 3D objects from one unoccupied 3D indoor/outdoor space to another.From a technical perspective,a 3D navigation model is one of the critical components that should be available to perform successful navigation.A major approach to build a unified navigation model to support seamless path computation is linking indoor navigation networks to outdoor road/street-based networks.Because of different sources of indoor and outdoor navigation networks,the major approach fails to build up true seamless navigation models.With regards to this,we propose a unified 3D space-based navigation model(U3DSNM).The presented model ensures all types of spaces for navigation(indoor,semi-indoor,semi-outdoor,and outdoor)have the same representation,management methods,and network derivation approach,thereby building up unified navigation networks to support seamless navigation paths planning.The model can be linked to the international standards(data models)that are also based on spaces,such as IndoorGML and the on-going version of CityGML 3.0.Three navigation path planning cases show the feasibility of U3DSNM.
基金This project is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50405046, No. 60605028)Program for Excellent Young Teachers of Shanghai, China (No. 04Y0HB094)+1 种基金State Leading Academic Discipline Fund of China (No. Y0102)Provincial Leading Academic Discipline Fund of Shanghai, China (No. BB67).
文摘Robotic unmanned blimps own an enormous potential for applications in low-speed and low-altitude exploration, surveillance, and monitoring, as well as telecommunication relay platforms. To make lighter-than-air platform a robotic blimp with significant levels of autonomy, the decoupled longitude and latitude dynamic model is developed, and the hardware and software of the flight control system are designed and detailed. Flight control and navigation strategy and algorithms for waypoint flight problem are discussed. A result of flight experiment is also presented, which validates that the flight control system is applicable and initial machine intelligence of robotic blimp is achieved.
