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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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Series: | Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6114-1 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.