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Aerial Vehicles
Edited by Thanh Mung Lam, ISBN 978-953-7619-41-1, Hard cover, 320 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published January 01, 2009 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license
This book contains 35 chapters written by experts in developing techniques for making aerial vehicles more intelligent, more reliable, more flexible in use, and safer in operation.It will also serve as an inspiration for further improvement of the design and application of aeral vehicles. The advanced techniques and research described here may also be applicable to other high-tech areas such as robotics, avionics, vetronics, and space.
- Chapter 1
Design and Development of a Fly-by-Wireless UAV Platform - Chapter 2 Combining Occupancy Grids with a Polygonal Obstacle World Model for Autonomous Flights
- Chapter 3 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) for Bio-Inspired Visuo-Motor Control Systems Applied to Micro-Air Vehicles
- Chapter 4 Advanced UAV Trajectory Generation: Planning and Guidance
- Chapter 5 Modelling and Control Prototyping of Unmanned Helicopters
- Chapter 6 Stabilization of Scale Model Vertical Take-off and Landing Vehicles without Velocity Measurements
- Chapter 7 Flight Control System Design Optimisation via Genetic Programming
- Chapter 8 Fly-the-Camera Perspective: Control of a Remotely Operated Quadrotor UAV and Camera Unit
- Chapter 9 A Flight Strategy for Intelligent Aerial Vehicles Learned from Dragonfly
- Chapter 10 DC Supply System Detector of UAV
- Chapter 11 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Formation Flight Using Sliding Mode Disturbance Observers
- Chapter 12 Autonomous Formation Flight: Design and Experiments
- Chapter 13 Vibration-Induced PM Noise in Oscillators and Its Suppression
- Chapter 14 Neural Network Control and Wireless Sensor Network-based Localization of Quadrotor UAV Formations
- Chapter 15 Asymmetric Hovering Flapping Flight: a Computational Study
- Chapter 16 UAV Path Planning in Search Operations
- Chapter 17 Optimal Circular Flight of Multiple UAVs for Target Tracking in Urban Areas
- Chapter 18 Stiffness-Force Feedback in UAV Tele-Operation
- Chapter 19 Objectively Optimized Earth Observing Systems
- Chapter 20 Performance Evaluation of an Unmanned Airborne Vehicle Multi-Agent System
- Chapter 21 Forced Landing Technologies for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Towards Safer Operations
- Chapter 22 Design Considerations for Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Chapter 23 Tracking a Moving Target from a Moving Camera with Rotation-Compensated Imagery
- Chapter 24 An Open Architecture for the Integration of UAV Civil Applications
- Chapter 25 Design, Implement and Testing of a Rotorcraft UAV System
- Chapter 26 Attitude and Position Control of a Flapping Micro Aerial Vehicle
- Chapter 27 UAV Trajectory Planning for Static and Dynamic Environments
- Chapter 28 Modelling and Identification of Flight Dynamics in Mini-Helicopters Using Neural Networks
- Chapter 29 An Evasive Maneuvering Algorithm for UAVs in Sense-and-Avoid Situations
- Chapter 30 UAS Safety in Non-Segregated Airspace
- Chapter 31 A Vision-based Steering Control System for Aerial Vehicles
- Chapter 32 Robust Path-Following for UAV Using Pure Pursuit Guidance
- Chapter 33 Flapping Wings with Micro Sensors and Flexible Framework to Modify the Aerodynamic Forces of a Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV)
- Chapter 34 Autonomous Guidance of UAVs for Real-Time Target Tracking in Adversarial Environments
- Chapter 35 Optic Flow Based Visual Guidance: From Flying Insects to Miniature Aerial Vehicles