Browsing by Author "Richardson, T. S."

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    • Advances in air to air refuelling 

      Thomas, Peter R.; Bhandari, U.; Bullock, S.; Richardson, T. S.; du-Bois, J. L. (2014-11-01)
      An increasing interest over the last decade in developing unmanned aerial systems' technologies has prompted research into methods for automating air to air refuelling processes. Furthermore, for systems with increased ...

    • Bow Wave Effect in Probe and Drogue Aerial Refuelling 

      Bhandari, U.; Thomas, Peter R.; Bullock, S.; Richardson, T. S. (2013-08-19)
      A wide range of UAV applications has been identified in the last decade, both for civil and military use. An autonomous AAR capability is perceived as an advantage to future support and deployment of mid-large scale UAV ...

    • Collaborative control in a flying-boom aerial refueling simulation 

      Thomas, Peter R.; Bullock, S.; Richardson, T. S.; Whidborne, J. F. (2015-07-01)
      Unmanned aerial systems are increasingly prevalent in the defense and civil sectors, and there is a desire to increase their effectiveness and versatility by adding the capability to perform air-to-air refueling. Furthermore, ...

    • Collaborative Control Methods for Automated Air-to-Air Refuelling 

      Bullock, S.; Thomas, Peter R.; Bhandari, U.; Richardson, T. S. (2012)
      Unmanned Air Systems are increasingly prevalent in the defence and civil sectors and there is a desire to increase their e ectiveness and versatility by adding the capability to perform air-to-air refuelling. Existing work ...

    • Control Methodologies for Relative Motion Reproduction in a Robotic Hybrid Test Simulation of Aerial Refuelling 

      du~Bois, J.; Thomas, Peter R.; Bullock, S.; Bhandari, U.; Richardson, T. S. (2012)
      In many applications it is advantageous to simulate the relative motion of two bodies in a laboratory environment. This permits the testing of sensors and systems critical to the safety of equipment and personnel with ...

    • Development of a Relative Motion Facility for Simulations of Autonomous Air to Air Refuelling 

      du~Bois, J. L.; Thomas, Peter R.; Richardson, T. S. (2012)
      The initial development and results of a comprehensive simulation and testing environment for autonomous air to air refuelling is presented. A thirteen degree of freedom relative motion facility has been installed at the ...

    • Fixed-Wing approach techniques for complex environments 

      Thomas, Peter R.; Bullock, S.; Bhandari, U.; Richardson, T. S. (2015-08-01)
      The landing approach for fixed-wing small unmanned air vehicles (SUAVs) in complex environments such as urban canyons, wooded areas, or any other obscured terrain is challenging due to the limited distance available for ...

    • Robotic relative motion reproduction for air to air refuelling simulation 

      Thomas, Peter R.; Richardson, T. S.; du-Bois, J. L. (2013)
      Hybrid testing involves the testing of physical subassemblies in a real-time simulation, coupled to numerical simulations of complete systems and their related environmental conditions. It offers the ability to test the ...

    • Vision based closed-loop control system for satellite rendezvous with model-in-the-loop validation and testing 

      du~Bois, J. L.; Newell, P.; Bullock, S.; Thomas, Peter R.; Richardson, T. S. (2012)
      A relative motion robotic facility has been developed at the University of Bristol which allows model in the loop testing of Matlab and Simulink based models. Automated rendezvous is highly desirable for space debris ...