Thomas Richardson

TL;DR: A review of the state of the art in this area can be found in this paper, where the authors present a survey of the current and future state of research in this field.

TL;DR: A hierarchical visual tracking algorithm based on direct methods is proposed and developed for the purposes of tracking a drogue during the capture stage of autonomous aerial refueling, and of estimating its 3D position.

TL;DR: The results of multiple flight experiments clearly demonstrate the potential of a novel force controlled lightweight compliant manipulator for the deployment of sensors and other force-related tasks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare UAS-derived gas timeseries to simultaneous crater rim multi-GAS data and UV camera imagery to investigate early plume evolution, and observe good agreement between time-averaged molar gas ratios obtained from simultaneous UAS and ground-based multiGAS acquisitions, and conclude that UAS measurements made in the young, less diluted plume reveal additional short-term periodic structure that reflects active degassing through discrete, audible gas exhalations.

TL;DR: The campaigns as a whole are described including the design of the bespoke eight rotor aircraft and the operational requirements that were needed in order to collect targeted multiple air samples up to 2.5 km above the ground level in under 20 min of flight time.