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Aerial Vehicles
Edited by Thanh Mung Lam, ISBN 978-953-7619-41-1, Hard cover, 320 pages, Publisher: InTech, Published: January 01, 2009 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, in subject Mobile Robotics
DOI: 10.5772/98
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.
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Book contents
- Chapter 1Design and Development of a Fly-by-Wireless UAV Platform
- Chapter 2Combining Occupancy Grids with a Polygonal Obstacle World Model for Autonomous Flights
- Chapter 3Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) for Bio-Inspired Visuo-Motor Control Systems Applied to Micro-Air Vehicles
- Chapter 4Advanced UAV Trajectory Generation: Planning and Guidance
- Chapter 5Modelling and Control Prototyping of Unmanned Helicopters
- Chapter 6Stabilization of Scale Model Vertical Take-off and Landing Vehicles without Velocity Measurements
- Chapter 7Flight Control System Design Optimisation via Genetic Programming
- Chapter 8Fly-the-Camera Perspective: Control of a Remotely Operated Quadrotor UAV and Camera Unit
- Chapter 9A Flight Strategy for Intelligent Aerial Vehicles Learned from Dragonfly
- Chapter 10DC Supply System Detector of UAV
- Chapter 11Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Formation Flight Using Sliding Mode Disturbance Observers
- Chapter 12Autonomous Formation Flight: Design and Experiments
- Chapter 13Vibration-Induced PM Noise in Oscillators and Its Suppression
- Chapter 14Neural Network Control and Wireless Sensor Network-based Localization of Quadrotor UAV Formations
- Chapter 15Asymmetric Hovering Flapping Flight: a Computational Study
- Chapter 16UAV Path Planning in Search Operations
- Chapter 17Optimal Circular Flight of Multiple UAVs for Target Tracking in Urban Areas
- Chapter 18Stiffness-Force Feedback in UAV Tele-Operation
- Chapter 19Objectively Optimized Earth Observing Systems
- Chapter 20Performance Evaluation of an Unmanned Airborne Vehicle Multi-Agent System
- Chapter 21Forced Landing Technologies for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Towards Safer Operations
- Chapter 22Design Considerations for Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Chapter 23Tracking a Moving Target from a Moving Camera with Rotation-Compensated Imagery
- Chapter 24An Open Architecture for the Integration of UAV Civil Applications
- Chapter 25Design, Implement and Testing of a Rotorcraft UAV System
- Chapter 26Attitude and Position Control of a Flapping Micro Aerial Vehicle
- Chapter 27UAV Trajectory Planning for Static and Dynamic Environments
- Chapter 28Modelling and Identification of Flight Dynamics in Mini-Helicopters Using Neural Networks
- Chapter 29An Evasive Maneuvering Algorithm for UAVs in Sense-and-Avoid Situations
- Chapter 30UAS Safety in Non-Segregated Airspace
- Chapter 31A Vision-based Steering Control System for Aerial Vehicles
- Chapter 32Robust Path-Following for UAV Using Pure Pursuit Guidance
- Chapter 33Flapping Wings with Micro Sensors and Flexible Framework to Modify the Aerodynamic Forces of a Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV)
- Chapter 34Autonomous Guidance of UAVs for Real-Time Target Tracking in Adversarial Environments
- Chapter 35Optic Flow Based Visual Guidance: From Flying Insects to Miniature Aerial Vehicles