FAACOE

This page is prepared for potential FAA COE leading PIs who might decide to team up with UC Merced's Scientific Data Drone Lab (MESA Lab). (Contact: YangQuan Chen at yqchen@ieee.org) 

• Current research emphasis

  • Our response to FAACOE RFP (docx file) in June 2014
  • Our Scientific Data Drone Test Site (SDDTS) (a  white paper .pdf) 
  • LandSat -XP idea
  • Smart sniffing and smart spraying (since 2002) - DRONEMATH idea (CPS, DDDAS or I called it MAS-net in 2002)
  • Digital Preservation (culture and heritage sites and structures)
  • Robotic environmental co-journalists. (my Youtube talk); eDNA Drone; WileBot; Soil CoPhysicist Drone; DustDrone, FireDrone, MethaneDrone etc.
  • AgDroneTech (SmartMelonDrone; CropStress) (2015 ICUAS preconference tutorial workshop proposal.PDF) ; Stress detection of crops and drone operators; (Round Robin test competition) ("NDVI doesn't work" paper)
  • Training, evaluation and certification of drones and drone operators (see our paper on drone insurance and risk assessment)
  • Airworthiness, HumanFactor research (search "airw" or "human" in https://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/uaspapers)
    • ​​2012: A Framework for Analyzing Human Factors in Unmanned Aerial Systems, IEEE ISRCS'12.
    • 2013: HRV monitoring for human factor research in UAS, FDTA13 @ MESA13 @ ASME IDETC/CIE13 Portland, OR
    • 2013: SUAS Airworthiness, Architecture, and Human Factors. Half-Day Tutorial at 2013 ICUAS, Atlanta, GA, USA (all ppts.zip)
    • 2015: Haptic interface of data-drone operation considering human operator’s force sensitivity. FDTA15.
    • 2015. Mathematical model of human operator using fractional calculus for human-in-the-loop control. FDTA15.
    • 2015. Fractional order modeling of human operator behavior in the man-machine control system. Int J Control.
    • 2015. Concept Of Operations Of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems: Basis For Airworthiness Towards Personal Remote Sensing.
    • 2015. Airworthiness and Protocol Development for Safe Night Flying Missions for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUASs). (pdf)

• Past credits:

  • 9 active FAA COAs; ever first night flight FAA COA! 
  • PI. NSF RAPID: Low Cost Personal Remote Sensing for Cognitive Disaster Assessment with Enhanced Human-Machine Interface. (Award ID: 1138632)  (study site: Christchurch, NZ)
  • PI. NASA UAS2NAS. (Award ID: NNX11AO77A).  Airworthiness techniques and flight evaluation for integrating low cost personal remote sensing UAV in the national airspace system (NAS)
  • First place winner of 2009 AND 2011. SUAS Student UAS Competition AUVSI. (sample winning journal paper)
  • Our UAS papers https://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/uaspapers
  • Co-Chair (2012-2018). IEEE RAS Technical Committee on ARUAV (TC poster ppt, TC website http://ieee-aerialrobotics-uavs.org/)​
  • MRS 4 project. 

• Summary Slides - "why us, why here and why now"

  • Overview PPT
  • ICUAS15 preconference workshop slides (https://ucmerced.box.com/AgDroneTech15) (send email for passcode) on “Emerging sUAS Technology for Precision Agriculture Applications (AgDroneTech15)”

• Links:

  • FAA COE RFP.pdf (2014) 
  • SUAVTA 2015 @ ASME IEEE MESA @ IDETC/CIE 2015, Boston.
  • ICUAS 2016 Washington DC. http://uasconferences.com/ (Dr. Chen serves as IPC Chair) (CFP pdf)
  • ASPRS UASMapping Reno 2015 (MESA LAB will contribute) (Our 2014 contributions)
  • IFAC RED UAS 15  (MESA LAB will contribute)
  • NASA UTM 2015 (MESA LAB will contribute)

Last updated 8/10/15; 6/14/15. 

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