Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (eBook, PDF)

State of the Art and the Road to Autonomy
Redaktion: Valavanis, Kimon P.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The past decade has seen tremendous interest in the production and refinement of unmanned aerial vehicles, both fixed-wing, such as airplanes and rotary-wing, such as helicopters and vertical takeoff and landing vehicles. This book provides a diversified survey of research and development on small and miniature unmanned aerial vehicles of both fixed and rotary wing designs. From historical background to proposed new applications, this is the most comprehensive reference yet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402061141
• Artikelnr.: 37350475

Autorenporträt

Kimon P. Valavanis, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

Inhaltsangabe

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.