An Unmanned Aircraft System （UAS） is an aircraft or ground station that can be either remote controlled manually or is capable of flying autonomously under the guidance of pre-programmed Global Positioning System （...An Unmanned Aircraft System （UAS） is an aircraft or ground station that can be either remote controlled manually or is capable of flying autonomously under the guidance of pre-programmed Global Positioning System （GPS） waypoint flight plans or more complex onboard intelligent systems. The UAS aircrafts have recently found extensive applications in military reconnaissance and surveillance, homeland security, precision agriculture, fire monitoring and analysis, and other different kinds of aids needed in disasters. Through surveillance videos captured by a UAS digital imaging payload over the interest areas, the corresponding UAS missions can be conducted. In this paper, the authors present an effective method to detect and extract architectural buildings under rural environment from UAS video sequences. The SIFT points are chosen as image features. The planar homography is adopted as the motion model between different image frames. The proposed algorithm is tested on real UAS video data.展开更多
The use of unmanned aircraft systems(UAS)for critical public service missions by public organizations,local governments,and social users is expanding.Robust radio transmission by unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)is indis...The use of unmanned aircraft systems(UAS)for critical public service missions by public organizations,local governments,and social users is expanding.Robust radio transmission by unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)is indispensable in these applications.One of the standards suitable for UAV wireless communications is local 5G.However,to introduce local 5G into a UAS,several problems specific to UASes must be solved.Challenges include the deterioration of the signal-to-noise ratio due to topography and obstacles,the uncertainty of the communication environment due to the movement of multiple UAVs,and the limitation of the frequency bandwidth.To address these problems and to introduce local 5G into the UAS,we propose a novel communication scheduling method.The method incorporates transmission modes with diversity.Our evaluations shows that total data volumes increase by 1.9~3 times with the proposed scheduling method compared with transmission without diversity or efficient scheduling.展开更多
Unmanned Aircraft Systems(UASs) have advanced technologically and surged exponentially over recent years. Currently, due to safety concerns, most civil operations of UAS are conducted in low-level uncontrolled area or...Unmanned Aircraft Systems(UASs) have advanced technologically and surged exponentially over recent years. Currently, due to safety concerns, most civil operations of UAS are conducted in low-level uncontrolled area or in segregated controlled airspace. As the industry progresses, both operational and technological capabilities have matured to the point where UASs are expected to gain greater freedom of access to both controlled and uncontrolled airspace. Extensive technical and regulatory surveys have been conducted to enable the expanded operations. However, most surveys are derived from the perspective of UAS own operating mechanism and barely consider interactions of their non-segregated activities with the Air Traffic Management(ATM) system. Hence, to fill the gap, this paper presents a survey conducted from the perspective of Air Navigation Service Provider(ANSP), which serves to accommodate these new entrants to the overall national airspace while continuing flight safety and efficiency. The primary objectives of this paper are to:(A) describe what typical ANSP-supplied UAS Traffic Management(UTM) architecture is required to facilitate all types of civil UAS operations;(B) identify three major ANSP considerations on how UAS can be accommodated safely in civil airspace;(C) outline future directions and challenges related with UAS operations for the ANSP.展开更多
文摘An Unmanned Aircraft System （UAS） is an aircraft or ground station that can be either remote controlled manually or is capable of flying autonomously under the guidance of pre-programmed Global Positioning System （GPS） waypoint flight plans or more complex onboard intelligent systems. The UAS aircrafts have recently found extensive applications in military reconnaissance and surveillance, homeland security, precision agriculture, fire monitoring and analysis, and other different kinds of aids needed in disasters. Through surveillance videos captured by a UAS digital imaging payload over the interest areas, the corresponding UAS missions can be conducted. In this paper, the authors present an effective method to detect and extract architectural buildings under rural environment from UAS video sequences. The SIFT points are chosen as image features. The planar homography is adopted as the motion model between different image frames. The proposed algorithm is tested on real UAS video data.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(61174102)Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation of China(SBK20130033)+1 种基金Aeronautical Science Foundation of China 20145152029)Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education(20133218110013)
基金Part of this work was conducted under a national project,Research and Development of Communication Network Technology for Ef☀-cient Use of Frequency in Unmanned Aircraft Systems,which was supported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications(MIC),Japan,and this project was supported by the KDDI Foundation,Japan.The associate editor coordinating the review of this paper and approving it for publication was L.Bai.
文摘The use of unmanned aircraft systems(UAS)for critical public service missions by public organizations,local governments,and social users is expanding.Robust radio transmission by unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)is indispensable in these applications.One of the standards suitable for UAV wireless communications is local 5G.However,to introduce local 5G into a UAS,several problems specific to UASes must be solved.Challenges include the deterioration of the signal-to-noise ratio due to topography and obstacles,the uncertainty of the communication environment due to the movement of multiple UAVs,and the limitation of the frequency bandwidth.To address these problems and to introduce local 5G into the UAS,we propose a novel communication scheduling method.The method incorporates transmission modes with diversity.Our evaluations shows that total data volumes increase by 1.9~3 times with the proposed scheduling method compared with transmission without diversity or efficient scheduling.
基金supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China(61304223)the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China(2016ZA52009)the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(20123218120015)
基金co-supported by the Outstanding Youth Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61822102)the MIIT Technological Base Program (No. JSZL2016601B003)the National Key Research and Development Program (No. 2018YFB0505105)。
文摘Unmanned Aircraft Systems(UASs) have advanced technologically and surged exponentially over recent years. Currently, due to safety concerns, most civil operations of UAS are conducted in low-level uncontrolled area or in segregated controlled airspace. As the industry progresses, both operational and technological capabilities have matured to the point where UASs are expected to gain greater freedom of access to both controlled and uncontrolled airspace. Extensive technical and regulatory surveys have been conducted to enable the expanded operations. However, most surveys are derived from the perspective of UAS own operating mechanism and barely consider interactions of their non-segregated activities with the Air Traffic Management(ATM) system. Hence, to fill the gap, this paper presents a survey conducted from the perspective of Air Navigation Service Provider(ANSP), which serves to accommodate these new entrants to the overall national airspace while continuing flight safety and efficiency. The primary objectives of this paper are to:(A) describe what typical ANSP-supplied UAS Traffic Management(UTM) architecture is required to facilitate all types of civil UAS operations;(B) identify three major ANSP considerations on how UAS can be accommodated safely in civil airspace;(C) outline future directions and challenges related with UAS operations for the ANSP.
