QuadCloud: A Rapid Response Force with Quadrotor Teams
Yash Vardhan Pant, Kartik Mohta, Houssam Abbas, Truong X. Nghiem, Joseph Devietti, Rahul Mangharam

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Yash Vardhan Pant, Kartik Mohta, Houssam Abbas, Truong X. Nghiem, Joseph Devietti, Rahul Mangharam. "QuadCloud: A Rapid Response Force with Quadrotor Teams". Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics Special Issue on ISER 2014, 13, November, 2015.

Abstract
We describe the component technologies, the architecture and system design, and experimentation with a team of ying robots that can respond to emergencies or security threats where there is urgent need for situational awareness. We envision the team being launched either by high level commands from a dispatcher or automatically triggered by a threat detection system (for example, an alarm). Our rst response team consists of autonomous quadrotors with downward-facing cameras that can navigate to a designated location in an urban environment and develop a integrated picture of areas around a building or a city block. We specically address the design of the platform capable of autonomous navigation at speeds of over 30 mph, the control and estimation software, the algorithms for trajectory planning and allocation of robots to specic tasks, and a user interface that allows the specication of tasks with a situational awareness display.

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  Yash Vardhan Pant, Kartik Mohta, Houssam Abbas, Truong X.
  Nghiem, Joseph Devietti, Rahul Mangharam. <a
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  Yash Vardhan Pant, Kartik Mohta, Houssam Abbas, Truong X.
  Nghiem, Joseph Devietti, Rahul Mangharam. "QuadCloud: A
  Rapid Response Force with Quadrotor Teams". Springer
  Tracts in Advanced Robotics Special Issue on ISER 2014, 13,
  November, 2015.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{PantMohtaAbbasNghiemDeviettiMangharam15_QuadCloudRapidResponseForceWithQuadrotorTeams,
      author = {Yash Vardhan Pant and Kartik Mohta and Houssam
                Abbas and Truong X. Nghiem and Joseph Devietti and
                Rahul Mangharam},
      title = {QuadCloud: A Rapid Response Force with Quadrotor
                Teams},
      booktitle = {Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics Special Issue
                on ISER 2014},
      day = {13},
      month = {November},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {We describe the component technologies, the
                architecture and system design, and
                experimentation with a team of ying robots that
                can respond to emergencies or security threats
                where there is urgent need for situational
                awareness. We envision the team being launched
                either by high level commands from a dispatcher or
                automatically triggered by a threat detection
                system (for example, an alarm). Our rst response
                team consists of autonomous quadrotors with
                downward-facing cameras that can navigate to a
                designated location in an urban environment and
                develop a integrated picture of areas around a
                building or a city block. We specically address
                the design of the platform capable of autonomous
                navigation at speeds of over 30 mph, the control
                and estimation software, the algorithms for
                trajectory planning and allocation of robots to
                specic tasks, and a user interface that allows
                the specication of tasks with a situational
                awareness display. },
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/388.html}
  }
  

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