ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This work details the design, modelling, control and successful demonstration of a tethered multirotor UAV system; as a rst iteration towards an alternative, and more accessible, persistent aerial ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis presents the design, implementation and verification of a close quarters, collisionprotected aerial drone. The ultimate goal of this work is to enable an unmanned aerial drone to navigate a ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based field measurements have been proposed as a possible solution to provide calibration data for large ground based radio telescope arrays, such as the Mid Frequency ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In order for a fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to navigate safely in dynamic environments, a conflict free trajectory between an initial and goal state of a vehicle needs to be planned ...