Title : Immersive Collaborative Testbed for UAV Control Design



Project Lead : Bla Takarics From : Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (None)

Dates : from 2013-02-18 00:00:00 to 2014-01-22 12:46:09

Description :

Motivation and objectives :
I am dealing with the stabilisation of the 3 degrees-of-freedom prototypical aeroelastic wing section model and with high level control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Several research groups are dealing with the same topics worldwide from various approaches. It would be beneficial to have a holographic collaborative testbed, which can be simultaneously used by several engineers for collaboration in both of the mentioned topics. This way the observations and research results could be exchanged efficiently, which would lead to more rapid design of low and high level control. A holographic collaborative testbed would make collaborative design possible, starting from the mathematical design to the physical design of the specific structure. The engineers can simultaneously observe the mathematical and "real" construction this way. These can be simultaneously manipulated step-by-step until the final product is reached. Being a PhD candidate at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, currently I dont have access to high level visualisation facilities. Therefore, the Visionair project would provide me the possibility to explore the benefits simultaneous, intuitive interaction and collaboration in research. My objective is to design the above mentioned holographic collaborative test bed and to examine the efficiency of simultaneous low and high level control design. I am also interested in participating in European infrastructures with world-class visualization capabilities. I believe that an opportunity like this can be the foundation of long term collaborations. After a research on the possible host institutions I found that the Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology at Fraunhofer would suit my hardware and software needs and I have already got in touch with the laboratory members.

Teams :
The department of Mechatronics, Optics and Engineering Informatics had several changes in its name, has undergone separations and mergers in the past 50 years. One of the predecessors of the department was a department at the Faculty of Military Engineering terminated in 1956. The Department of Precision Mechanics and Optics was founded in 1957 by the Kossuth prize holder Professor Dr. Nndor Brny, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was followed by Dr.Olivr Petrik, Dr. Zoltn Kaposvri, Dr. Attila Halmai and Dr. Gyrgy brahm. Mechatronic sciences have been taught at the department since the late 1980s. The Department, already under the name of department of Mechatronics, Optics and Instrument Technology, merged with the Mechanical Engineering Informatics Department, headed by Dr. Lszl Monostori in 2007. This latter department is the legal successor of the Institute of Thermal Energy and Systems Engineering headed by Dr. Imre Szab and the Information Engineering Laboratory at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The new department headed by professor Dr. habil. Gyrgy brahm, doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences works its scientific fields in organic unity with its predecessors. The department teaches and researches complex systems where mechatronics, control engineering, optics and precision mechanics are organic combined. Furthermore, the department teaches the basics of measurement and information technology for the students of the faculty.

Dates :
starting date : 18 February, 2013
ending date : 01 March, 2013

Facilities descriptions :
http://visionair-browser.g-scop.grenoble-inp.fr/visionair/Browser/Catalogs/VPCC.GE.html

Recordings & Results :
The project's background is in the stabilisation of a 3 degrees-of-freedom prototypical aeroelastic wing section model and with high level control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The aim was to design the a holographic collaborative test bed to examine the efficiency of simultaneous low and high level control design.

Conclusions :
The project resulted i a 3D immersive visualisation testbed with the following capabilities: - 3D immersive visualisation of various (in the present case 2) 3 DoF prototypical aeroalastic wing section models the plunge value with the pitch and trailing edge angles are simultaneously were visualized; - Various control solutions (in the present case 3) to the models above; - The offline simulation processer were visualized in a 3D immersive CAVE - Intuitive information is displayed (two bars normalised control signals for the transient and steady state) during the simulation.




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