AE 5335: Autonomous Aerial Vehicles

This course discusses the foundations of autonomy of aerial vehicles including fixed-wing aircraft and quadrotor aircraft. Topics covered include: localization using inertial sensors, GPS, and computer vision; extended Kalman filtering for localization; trajectory planning; feedback guidance for trajectory tracking; and low-level autopilot control design. Whereas this course will review aircraft dynamics, familiarity with this topic at an undergraduate level isbeneficial. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have taken AE 5224 “Air Vehicle Dynamics and Control”.