Shipborne UAV-assisted dock is an important way to recover unmanned systems for remote water surface low-altitude detection. The lack of resisting deck disturbances capability for UAV autonomous landing in dynamic dock stations has led to the inability of traditional hovering recovery methods for single UAV guidance and flight attitude control systems to meet the growing demand for landing assistance. In this work, we present a shipborne manipulator arm designed to grasp drones that use low-altitude visual servo technology for landing on the water surface. The shipborne manipulator arm is fabricated as a key component of a seaplane drone dock comprising a ship-type embedded drone storage, a packaged helistop for power transfer and UAV recovery, and a multi-degree-of-freedom arm integrated with multi-source information sensors for the treatment of air-to-water-related airplane crashes. Dynamic model tests have demonstrated that the end-effector of the shipborne manipulator arm stabilizes and performs optimally for water surface disturbances. A down-to-top grasp docking paradigm for a UAV-assisted perching on a shipborne helistop that enables the charging components of the station system to be equipped automatically to ensure that the drone performs its mission in the best condition is also presented. The surface grasp experiments have verified the efficacy of this grasp paradigm when compared to the traditional autonomous landing method.
Shipborne UAV-assisted dock is an important way to recover unmanned systems for remote water surface low-altitude detection. The lack of resisting deck disturbances capability for UAV autonomous landing in dynamic dock stations has led to the inability of traditional hovering recovery methods for single UAV guidance and flight attitude control systems to meet the growing demand for landing assistance. In this work, we present a shipborne manipulator arm designed for grasping drones that utilize low-altitude visual servo to land on the water surface. The shipborne manipulator arm is fabricated as a key component of a seaplane drone dock comprising a ship-type embedded drone storage, a packaged helistop for power transfer and UAV recovery, and a multi-degree-of-freedom arm integrated multi-source information sensors for the treatment of air to a water-related airplane crash. Dynamics model tests have demonstrated that the end-effector of the shipborne manipulator arm stabilizes and performs optimally for water surface disturbances. A down-to-top grasp docking paradigm for a UAV-assisted perching on shipborne helistop that enables the charging components of the station system to be equipped automatically to ensure that the drone performs its mission in the best condition is also presented. The efficacy of this grasp paradigm when compared with a previous top-to-down model without power recovery has been verified by retrieving vessels in the military fields.
The species of the adaptive male–female sex ratio has different effects on the bio-community. This paper is aimed at figuring out these effects through mechanism analysis and Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE). Hence, the ODE environmental model is created by combining the Lotka–Volterra model, the interspecific model, and other external factors. The stability is used to characterize these effects. According to this model, effects on bio-community stability under different male–female sex ratios are roughly observed. By innovatively considering different living environments during the species’ lifecycle, the ODE environmental model is optimized, and the effects of different male–female sex ratios on the bio-community are further analyzed by phase-track maps and relative standard deviation. It is found that there are different findings and features in resource-rich and resource-scarce living environments during the lifecycle. Meanwhile, bio-communities in these two types of environments are in a stable state based on different male–female sex ratios. Based on these findings, directive opinions can be used to manage and help relevant bio-communities.