Documents and publications

Project-related publications

• Adaptive sampling of cumulus clouds with UAVs. Christophe Reymann, Alessandro Renzaglia, Fayçal Lamraoui, Murat Bronz and Simon Lacroix. Accepted for publication in Autonomous Robots journal.

• Guidance algorithm for smooth trajectory tracking of a fixed wing UAV flying in wind flows. H. Garcia de Marina, Y. A. Kapitanyuk, M. Bronz, G. Hattenberger and M. Cao. Submitted to ICRA 2017

• Optimal design of long endurance mini UAVs for atmospheric measurements. E. Bouhoubeiny, E. Benard, M. Bronz, N. Gavrilovic, V. Bonnin Royal Aeronautic Society Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Bristol (UK), July 19-21 2016.

• Aerodynamic Characterization of an Off-the-Shelf Aircraft via Flight Test and Numerical Simulation. M. Bronz and G. Hattenberger. AIAA Flight Testing Conference, Washington, DC, June 2016

• "Towards Micro- and Macrophysical Parameterization of Shallow Convective Clouds : From Large-Eddy Simulation to multi-UAV-based cloud sampling", an abstract presented The 17th International Conference on Clouds & Precipitation, Manchester, UK, 25-29 July 2016.

• Monitoring the Evolution of Clouds with UAVs. Alessandro Renzaglia, Christophe Reymann and Simon Lacroix. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm (Sweden), May 16-21, 2016.

• Fleets of enduring drones to probe atmospheric phenomena with clouds. Simon Lacroix, Greg Roberts, Emmanuel Benard, Murat Bronz, Frédéric Burnet, Elkhedim Bouhoubeiny, Jean-Philippe Condomines, Carsten Doll, Gautier Hattenberger, Fayçal Lamraoui, Alessandro Renzaglia, and Christophe Reymann. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016, Vienna (Austria), 17-22 April 2016

• Experimental Wind Field Estimation and Aircraft Identification. Jean-Philippe Condomines, Murat Bronz, Gautier Hattenberger, Jean-François Erdelyi. International Micro Air Vehicles Conference and Flight Competition (IMAV), Aachen (Germany), Sept 15-18, 2015.

• Monitoring Atmospheric Phenomena within Low-Altitude Clouds with a Fleet of Fixed-Wing UAVs. Alessandro Renzaglia, Christophe Reymann, and Simon Lacroix. Extended abstract presented as a poster at the Principles of Multi-Robot Systems workshop, in conjunction with the Robotics: Science and Systems conference, Roma (Italy), July 13-17, 2015.

Misc documents

The master internship report of Diego Selle at LAAS: Improving Gaussian Process Regression by Including Prior Knowledge (here is a 37 Mb version with full resolution pictures, and the slides of the master viva)

The master internship report of Rafael Bailon at LAAS: Deployment of a simulation software architecture for a fleet of UAVs

A technical report on the optimized conception of a drone to explore clouds (in french), by 4 engineer students of ISAE

Some slides on cloud mapping and exploration presented during a one day workshop on multi-robot systems in Montpellier (France), in March 2016.

A one page poster (in french) of the project progresses, presented at the STAE foundation 5th fall meeting in November 2015.

The report of the internship of Christophe Reymann at LAAS, during spring 2015, on the mapping of clouds using Gaussian Processes (in french)

The report of the internship of Jean-François Erdelyi at ENAC, during spring 2015, on the development and evaluation of an incidence measuring vane (in french)

The slides on the project status that have been presented at the MAV-RC Garden Workshop on July the 2nd, 2015

A bunch of slides (27 MB) that present the work in progress as of April 2015 (here is a 7.3 MB compressed version).

A one page poster (in french) of the project objectives, presented at the STAE foundation 4th fall meeting.

A one page poster that summarizes the activities of GAME on the use of Unmanned Aerial Systems to gather atmoshperic data.

S. Lacroix. SkyScanner: Deploying Fleets of Enduring Drones to Probe Atmospheric Phenomena. Invited talk at the international workshop on Multi Unmanned Vehicles Systems, Compiègne (France), July 2014.

Excerpt of the project proposal (in french) as it has been submitted for evaluation in July 2013.

Other publications by the project partners

• Towards vision-based autonomous cross-country soaring flight for a small UAV glider. Martin Stolle, Yoko Watanabe and Carsten Döll, submitted to EuroGNC 2015, Toulouse, April 13-15 2015.

Selection of prior partners publications

This section gathers papers related to the SkyScanner research areas that have been previously published by the project partners (reverse chronological order)

S. Lacroix. Decisional issues in multi-UAV systems. Invited talk at the Lakeside Lab Research Days, Klagenfurt (Austria), Aug. 2013.

F. Couvreux · F. Hourdin · C. Rio. Resolved Versus Parametrized Boundary-Layer Plumes. Part I: A Parametrization-Oriented Conditional Sampling in Large-Eddy Simulations, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Volume 134, Issue 3, pp 441-458, March 2010

G. Hattenberger, S. Lacroix, and R. Alami. Formation flight: evaluation of autonomous configuration control algorithms. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego (USA), pages 2628–2633, 2007.

S. Lacroix, R. Alami, T. Lemaire, G. Hattenberger, and J. Gancet. Decision making in multi-UAVs systems: Architecture and algorithms. In A. Ollero and I. Maza, editors, Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Tracts on Advanced Robotics. Springer, Oct. 2007.

G. Hattenberger, R. Alami, and S. Lacroix. Planning and control for unmanned air vehicle formation flight. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing (China), Oct. 2006.

J. Gancet, G. Hattenberger, R. Alami, and S. Lacroix. Task planning and control for a multi-UAV system: architecture and algorithms. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Edmonton (Canada), Aug. 2005.

T. Lemaire, R. Alami, and S. Lacroix. A distributed tasks allocation scheme in multi-UAV context. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, LA (USA), April 2004.