Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles State of the Art and the Road to Autonomy /

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have seen unprecedented levels of growth in military and civilian application domains. Fixed-wing aircraft, heavier or lighter than air, rotary-wing (rotorcraft, helicopters), vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned vehicles are being increasingly used in milita...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Valavanis, Kimon P. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
Σειρά:Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering ; 33
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Background Information
  • A Historical Perspective on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Modeling and Control Fundamentals
  • Airplane Basic Equations of Motion and Open-Loop Dynamics
  • Control Fundamentals of Small / Miniature Helicopters - A Survey
  • A Tutorial Approach to Small Unmanned Helicopter Controller Design for Non-aggressive Flights
  • Design and Control of a Miniature Quadrotor
  • Navigation Aspects
  • Obstacle and Terrain Avoidance for Miniature Aerial Vehicles
  • Vision Based Navigation and Target Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Single and Multi-UAV Relative Position Estimation Based on Natural Landmarks
  • Evolutionary Algorithm Based Path Planning for Multiple UAV Cooperation
  • Applications
  • Robust Nonlinear Observers for Attitude Estimation of Mini UAVs
  • Autonomous Solar UAV for Sustainable Flights
  • The Integration of a Multimodal MAV and Biomimetic Sensing for Autonomous Flights in Near-Earth Environments
  • Dynamic Localization of Air-Ground Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Decentralized Formation Tracking of Multi-Vehicle Systems with Consensus-Based Controllers
  • “Hardware in the Loop” Tuning for a Volcanic Gas Sampling UAV
  • A Modular On-board Processing System for Small Unmanned Vehicles
  • Epilogue
  • Conclusions and the Road Ahead.