Juniper Publishers-Engineering Technology Open Access Journal

Implementation of Open-Source for Outdoor Multirotors Helicopter Authored by  Sulaiman Sabikan This paper presents an Open-Source Project (OSPs) platform for autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that can be implemented in most of the outdoor applications or even in research experimental purposes. The OSP platform is one of the most popular approaches for whose demanding faster and low initial cost platform development in robotics system as well as for aerial vehicles. Besides that, the main reason is their design flexibility in both hardware and software. The explanations in the OSP platform approach and configuration for autonomous flight is presented and applied. This paper also provided several outdoor experiments results in uncontrolled environment that have been executed using our developed test bed to evaluate their performance, such as attitude and altitude stabilization, interference and vibration effect, and 3D trajectory mapping generation. In addition, we...

Risk Mitigation - What's Your Score? Authored by Philip Crosby  This article examines conventional methods for risk identification and risk scoring using 'look-up' tables, and concludes that such methods are inherently flawed and offer false confidence in project management. The author suggests a series of searching questions to test the efficacy of traditional risk assessment in order to better prepare the project for review. Important further considerations are posed in relation to nonspecific, irrational risk exposure (i.e. Black Swans), and the author presents two approaches for improved preparedness against undefined risk. To read more.... PDF in Engineering Technology Open Access Journal in Juniper Publishers