Takuma Nakamura

Those who have no vision have no wings

Publication

Vision-Based Landing

  • T. Nakamura, D. Magree, E. N. Johnson, “Estimation Techniques in Robust Vision-Based Landing of Aerial Vehicles,” Proceedings of the 20th IFAC World Congress, July 2017
  • T. Nakamura, S. Haviland, D. Bershadsky, E. N. Johnson, “Vision Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Landing,” Proceedings of the AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2017
  • T. Nakamura, S. Haviland, D. Bershadsky, E. N. Johnson, “Vision- Based Optimal Landing On a Moving Platform,” Proceedings of the 72nd AHS Annual Forum and Technology Display, May 2016

Detection & Tracking From Airborne Images

  • T. Nakamura, S. Haviland, D. Bershadsky, D. Magree, E. N. Johnson, “Particle Filter for Closed-Loop Recognition and Tracking from Occluded Airborne Images,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2017
  • T. Nakamura, E. N. Johnson, “Vision-Based Multiple Model Adaptive Estimation of Ground Targets From Airborne Images,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), June 2016
  • T. Nakamura, S. Haviland, D. Bershadsky, D. Magree, E. N. Johnson, “Vision-Based Closed-Loop Tracking Using Micro Air Vehicles,” Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 2016

Other Aerospace

  • L. Ren, M. Castillo-Effen, H. Yu, E. Johnson, T. Nakamura, Y. Yoon, C. A. Ippolito, “Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) Trajectory Modeling in Support of UAS Traffic Management (UTM)”, Proceedings of the AIAA Aiviation, June 2017
  • H. Mehmood, T. Nakamura, E. N. Johnson, “A Maneuverability Analysis of a Novel Hexarotor UAV Concept,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), June 2016
  • K. Nagatani, K. Akiyama, G. Yamauchi, H. Otsuka, T. Nakamura, S. Kiribayashi, “Volcanic Ash Observation in Active Volcano Areas using Teleoperated Mobile Robots -Introduction to Our Robotic-Volcano-Observation Project and Field Experiments-,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Oct 2013
  • T. Nakamura, S. Kiribayashi, K. Nagatani, K. Yoshida, “Development of an Omnidirectional Airspeed Indicator for Multi-rotor UAVs,” Proceedings of the JSASS-H031, March 2013
  • H. Otsuka, T. Nakamura, S. Kiribayashi, K. Nagatani, K. Yoshida, “Analysis of Thrust Change in Different Altitude Conditions for Small Rotary-Wing UAVs Propellers,” Proceedings of the JSASS-H028, March 2013
  • T. Katsura, T. Nakamura, T. Shirahata, “Measures to Land and Sea Breeze on the Japan International Birdman Rally,” Proceedings of the JSASS Sky Sports Symposium 17, 69-72, Nov 2011