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Present	Professor, Utah State University ‐ Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Articles (43)

Influence of Model Grid Size on the Estimation of Surface ...

Remote Sensing (2020)

Ayman Nassar, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, William Kustas, Hector Nieto, et al.

Evapotranspiration (ET) is a key variable for hydrology and irrigation water management,with significant importance in drought-stricken regions of the western ...

Incorporation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Point Cloud Products into ...

Remote Sensing (2019)

Mahyar Aboutalebi, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Mac McKee, William P. Kustas, et al.

In recent years, the deployment of satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has led to production of enormous amounts of ...

A Practitioner’s Guide to Small Unmanned Aerial Systems for ...

Infrastructures (2019)

Sattar Dorafshan, Robert J. Thomas, Calvin Coopmans and Marc Maguire

Small unmanned aerial system(s) (sUAS) are rapidly emerging as a practical means of performing bridge inspections. Under the right condition, ...

Estimation of Surface Thermal Emissivity in a Vineyard for UAV ...

Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping IV (2019)

Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Mahyar Aboutalebi, Timothy Wright, Ayman Nassar, et al.

Microbolometer thermal cameras in UAVs and manned aircraft allow for the acquisition of highresolution temperature data, which, along with optical ...

Validation of Digital Surface Models (DSMs) Retrieved From Unmanned Aerial ...

Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping IV (2019)

Mahyar Aboutalebi, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Mac McKee, William Kustas, et al.

Theoretically, the appearance of shadows in aerial imagery is not desirable for researchers because it leads to errors in object ...

A Practitioner’s Guide to Small Unmanned Aerial Systems for ...

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications (2019)

Sattar Dorafshan, Robert J. Thomas, Calvin Coopmans and Marc Maguire

Small unmanned aerial system(s) (sUAS) are rapidly emerging as a practical means of performing bridge inspections. Under the right condition, ...

Assessment of Different Methods for Shadow Detection in High-Resolution Optical ...

Irrigation Science (2018)

Mahyar Aboutalebi, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, William P. Kustas, Héctor Nieto, et al.

Significant efforts have been made recently in the application of high-resolution remote sensing imagery (i.e., sub-meter) captured by unmanned aerial ...

Challenges in Bridge Inspection Using Small Unmanned Aerial Systems: Results ...

2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2017)

Sattar Dorafshan, Marc Maguire, Nathan V. Hoffer and Calvin Coopmans

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) have gained considerable private and commercial interest for a variety of jobs and entertainment in the ...

Improving communication security of open source UAVs: Encrypting radio control ...

2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2017)

Michal Podhradsky, Calvin Coopmans and Nathan V. Hoffer

Safety and reliability (also referred to as airworthiness) are well-known factors of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations, and significant effort ...

Multi-drone operations: a case study of safety and operational considerations

Journal of Air Traffic Control (2017)

Daniel Robinson, Nathan V. Hoffer and Calvin Coopmans

AggieAir unmanned aerial system traffic integration management: A case study ...

2016 IEEE/AIAA 35th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) (2016)

Calvin Coopmans, Nathan V. Hoffer, Austin Jensen and Daniel Robinson

Unmanned airspace access is a key topic to enable unmanned flights in the U.S. National Airspace System. Above the 400-foot ...

An open-source real-time UAS flight control prototyping and testing platform ...

2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2016)

Calvin Coopmans, Michal Podhradsky and Nathan V. Hoffer

Safety and reliability are key if unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are to move from research and become an everyday part ...

Software-and hardware-in-the-loop verification of flight dynamics model and flight control ...

2015 Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS) (2015)

Calvin Coopmans, Michal Podhradsk and Nathan V. Hoffer

Unmanned aerial system (UAS) use is ever-increasing. In this paper, it is shown that even with low-cost hardware and open-source ...

Small low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle System identification by Error Filtering ...

2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2015)

Nathan V. Hoffer, Calvin Coopmans, R. R. Fullmer and YangQuan Chen

This paper presents the results of system identification (system ID) of a small fixed-wing low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The ...

Cyber-physical systems enabled by small unmanned aerial vehicles

Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2014)

Calvin Coopmans, Brandon Stark, Austin Jensen, YangQuan Chen, et al.

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are tightly coupled systems of hardware and software providing large-scale, closed-loop control or management of high-level, complex ...

Architecture requirements for ethical, accurate, and resilient unmanned aerial personal ...

2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2014)

Calvin Coopmans

It is undisputed that number of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) will increase in the coming years. Small unmanned aerial scientific ...

Small low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle system identification: Brief sensor survey ...

2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2014)

Nathan V. Hoffer, Calvin Coopmans, YangQuan Chen and R. R. Fullmer

This paper serves as the next chapter in a series of papers on system identification (system ID) for small low-cost ...

A survey and categorization of small low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle ...

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2014)

Nathan V. Hoffer, Calvin Coopmans, Austin M. Jensen and YangQuan Chen

Remote sensing has traditionally be done with satellites and manned aircraft. While these methods can yield useful scientific data, satellites ...

Battery State-Of-Charge Based Altitude Controller for Small, Low Cost Multirotor ...

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2014)

Michal Podhraský, Calvin Coopmans and Austin Jensen

Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are typically driven by Lithium polymer batteries. The batteries have their own dynamics, which changes ...

Battery model-based thrust controller for a small, low cost multirotor ...

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2014)

Michal Podhradský, Calvin Coopmans and Austin Jensen

Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are typically driven by Lithium polymer batteries. The batteries have their own dynamics, which changes ...

Fractional-order complementary filters for small unmanned aerial system navigation

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2014)

Calvin Coopmans, Austin Jensen and YangQuan Chen

Orientation estimation is very important for development of unmanned aerial systems (UASs), and is performed by combining data from several ...

Pitch loop control of a VTOL UAV using fractional order ...

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2014)

Jinlu Han, Long Di, Calvin Coopmans and YangQuan Chen

Pitch loop control is the fundamental tuning step for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and has ...

When is a drone not a drone? Performing meaningful scientific ...

2013 Kansas Unmanned Systems Conference (2013)

Calvin Coopmans, Austin Jensen and Mac McKee

A miniature wildlife tracking UAV payload system using acoustic biotelemetry

2013 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (2013)

Miguel Leonardo, Austin M. Jensen, Calvin Coopmans, Mac McKee, et al.

Studying the biological processes of wildlife and how they react and prevail with human population growth and development has become ...

Radiation and Impedance Characteristics of a Circular Loop Antenna Driven ...

2013 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (2013)

Calvin Coopmans, Hadi Malek and Edmund Spencer

Fractional calculus techniques (non-integer order systems) have been successfully applied in many fields of electronics and engineering. In this paper ...