Affiliation:
Emeritus ProfessorChiba University
Chiba, Japan
Title:
Autonomous Flight of Multi-rotor Helicopter with GPS or GPS-denied Environment.
Abstract:
In this presentation, I will introduce fully autonomous flight control for multi-rotor helicopters by using two control scheme. One is GPS based autonomous flight control and the other one is another autonomous flight control with GPS-denied environment with SLAM. In particular, we have been developing the special aerial vehicle which will enter the disaster building of FUKUSHIMA nuclear power plant next year. I will show some movies about this project.
Biography:
Dr. Kenzo Nonami received Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1979 respectively from Tokyo Metropolitan University. He joined Chiba University as an assistant professor from 1980 to 1985. He was a research scientist and a senior research scientist at NASA in USA from 1985 to 1988 during two years. After that he became an associate professor from 1988 to 1994. Since 1994, he has been a full professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Chiba University. Dr. Kenzo Nonami was in charge of Vice President of Chiba University from 2008 to 2013. Right now, Dr. Nonami is a professor at Chiba University, a president of his own company called “Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory, Ltd.” and a director of Mini-surveyor Consortium which gather more than 100 companies. His recent research interests are Fully autonomous unmanned multi-rotor helicopters as UAVs with GPS or GPS-denied environments, Autonomous hydraulically driven hexapod walking robot, Autonomous intelligent mobile robots with wheels, Autonomous dual manipulator and hand systems, Unmanned autonomous boats, Flywheel energy storage system powered electric vehicle, Motion and vibration control for mechatronics, Robust and nonlinear control, and Control applications.