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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 103 - Seattle - February 2009
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.2 Government Agencies Summary Report 4.2.2 US Air Force 4.2.2.1 AFRL
Title	AFRL
Presenter	James Myatt
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Abstract	The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Air Vehicles Directorate continues to pursue advanced control technology to improve system survivability, performance, and affordability. Areas of increased research focus are autonomous and cooperative control of multiple unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and flight control of flapping wing micro air vehicles (MAVs). Work on autonomous and cooperative control of multiple UAVs targets defense of an air base with UAVs, unmanned ground vehicles, and unattended ground sensors integrated into a system that will enable Security Forces to identify threats while reducing the number of responses to false alarms. Greatly reducing operator workload requires autonomous task assignment for varying numbers and types of vehicles, autonomous path planning, and control of the vehicles and their on-board sensors. Operator modeling and adaption of the resource tasking algorithms form a critical element of the research effort. The Air Vehicles Directorate is increasing its research efforts in MAVs with efforts in the aeronautical, control, and structural sciences. Flapping vehicles were chosen for study in the area of control science due to the attractive technical challenges associated with control design for these complex systems. Construction of a new facility called the Micro-Air Vehicle Integration Application Research Institute (µAVIARI) is complete. The µAVIARI contains an external-camera-based system for measuring position and orientation of the MAV combined with a real-time control system. This system enables the calculation of forces and moments on a MAV without the use of a force balance as well as the use of position and orientation in feedback control loops.