.: Welcome to the New USL Site
Welcome to the new
Autonomous Unmanned Systems (USL) website. This provides information
on our current projects, who we are, our publications, and
general other information. We specialize in designing low
cost small unmanned vehicles and strive to use off the shelf
components in all of our equipment.
USL is a research team
at the University of South Florida consisting of over 20 graduate
and undergraduate students incorporating specialties from
computer, industrial, and electrical engineering. Current
designs focus on small electric vertical take-off and landing
vehicles (VTOLs) as well as small electric unmanned ground
vehicles (UGVs).
To navigate the site, the "People"
button will provide more detailed information about us, the
"Projects" button will give an overview and progress
of our current projects, the "Equipment" button
provides information about our various UGVs and unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs), and the "Our Partners" button
shows our affiliates.
USL
specializes in designing, building, and prototyping small
unmanned systems. All design work, integration, assembly,
and testing is performed in-house using mostly off the shelf
components. Currently, USL is focused on small helicopters
as well as ground vehicles.
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USL Educational Research and Development Objectives
» To serve as a nationally and
internationally recognized academic and research facility
in which students are exposed to both basic theoretical and
applied research and development.
» To attract top notch scholars and researchers.
» To design, model, control,
test and evaluate prototypes of in-house built small / miniature
autonomous unmanned aerial, ground and sea-surface vehicles,
equipped with diverse sensor suites, capable of executing
complex missions in uncertain environments.
» To serve as a demo site and
‘certification’ authority for unmanned vehicles.
» To provide the foundation
for technology transfer to the private sector.
» To bridge the gap between
military and civilian application domains.
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