Publications by authors named "Chao-Chung Peng"

This paper presents an altitude and attitude control system for a newly designed rocket-type unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) propelled by a gimbal-based coaxial rotor system (GCRS) enabling thrust vector control (TVC). The GCRS is the only means of actuation available to control the UAV's orientation, and the flight dynamics identify the primary control difficulty as the highly nonlinear and tightly coupled control distribution problem. To address this, the study presents detailed derivations of attitude flight dynamics and a control strategy to track the desired attitude trajectory.

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In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been applied in many fields owing to their mature flight control technology and easy-to-operate characteristics. No doubt, these UAV-related applications rely heavily on location information provided by the positioning system. Most UAVs nowadays use a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) to obtain location information.

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Facial recognition has attracted more and more attention since the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in recent years. However, most of the related works about facial reconstruction and recognition are mainly based on big data collection and image deep learning related algorithms. The data driven based AI approaches inevitably increase the computational complexity of CPU and usually highly count on GPU capacity.

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Robot navigation is an indispensable component of any mobile service robot. Many path planning algorithms generate a path which has many sharp or angular turns. Such paths are not fit for mobile robot as it has to slow down at these sharp turns.

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In past years, there has been significant progress in the field of indoor robot localization. To precisely recover the position, the robots usually relies on multiple on-board sensors. Nevertheless, this affects the overall system cost and increases computation.

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Due to the direct influence of night vision equipment availability on the safety of night-time aerial reconnaissance, maintenance needs to be carried out regularly. Unfortunately, some defects are not easy to observe or are not even detectable by human eyes. As a consequence, this study proposed a novel automatic defect detection system for aviator's night vision imaging systems AN/AVS-6(V)1 and AN/AVS-6(V)2.

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