PART I: Background Information- Introduction - K. P. Valavanis- A Historical Perspective on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles- K. P. Valavanis, M. Kontitsis- PART II: Modeling and Control Fundamentals- Airplane Basic Equations of Motion and Open-Loop Dynamics- I. A. Raptis, K. P. Valavanis- Control Fundamentals of Small Helicopters: A Survey - M. Castillo-Effen, C. Castillo, W. Moreno, K. P. Valavanis- A Tutorial Approach to Small Unmanned Helicopter Controller Design for Non-aggressive Flights- W. Alvis, C. Castillo, M. Castillo-Effen, W. Moreno, K. P. Valavanis - Design and Control of a Miniature Quadrotor - S. Bouabdallah, R. Siegwart- PART III: Navigation Aspects- Obstacle and Terrain Avoidance for Miniature Aerial Vehicles- S. Griffiths, J. Saunders, A. Curtis, T. McLain, R. Beard - Vision Based Navigation and Target Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles- B. Ludington, E. N. Johnson, G. J. Vachtsevanos - Single and Multi-UAV Relative Position Estimation Based on Natural Landmarks- L. Merino, F. Caballero, P. Forssen, J. Wiklund, J. Ferruz, J. R. Martinez-de-Dios, A. Moe, K. Nordberg, A. Ollero- Evolutionary Algorithm Based Path Planning for Multiple UAV Cooperation- I. K. Nikolos, N. C. Tsourveloudis, K. P. Valavanis - PART IV: Applications- Robust Nonlinear Observers for Attitude Estimation of Mini UAVs- R. Mahony, T. Hamel - Autonomous Solar UAV for Sustainable Flights- A. Noth, R. Siegwart, W. Engel - The Integration of a Multimodal MAV and Biomimetic Sensing for Autonomous Flights in Near-Earth Environments- W. Green, P. Y. Oh- Dynamic Localization of Air-Ground Wireless Sensor Networks- P. Dang, F. L. Lewis, D. O. Popa - Decentralized Formation Tracking of Multi-Vehicle Systems with Consensus-Based Controllers - L. Fang, P. J. Antsaklis- Hardware in the Loop Tuning for a Volcanic Gas Sampling UAV- G. Astuti, D. Caltabiano, G. Giudice, D. Longo, D. Melita, G. Muscato, A. Orlando- A Modular On-Board Processing System for Small Unmanned Vehicles- R. D. Garcia, K. P. Valavanis- PART V: Epilogue- The Road Ahead- K P. Valavanis, G. J. Vachtsevanos, P. J. Anstaklis- List of Contributed Chapters - ADVANCES IN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES- State of the Art and the Road to Autonomy PART I: Background Information- Introduction - K. P. Valavanis- A Historical Perspective on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles- K. P. Valavanis, M. Kontitsis- PART II: Modeling and Control Fundamentals- Airplane Basic Equations of Motion and Open-Loop Dynamics- I. A. Raptis, K. P. Valavanis- Control Fundamentals of Small Helicopters: A Survey - M. Castillo-Effen, C. Castillo, W. Moreno, K. P. Valavanis- A Tutorial Approach to Small Unmanned Helicopter Controller Design for Non-aggressive Flights- W. Alvis, C. Castillo, M. Castillo-Effen, W. Moreno, K. P. Valavanis - Design and Control of a Miniature Quadrotor - S. Bouabdallah, R. Siegwart- PART III: Navigation Aspects...
EAN/ISBN : 9781402061141
Publisher(s): Springer Netherlands
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Author(s): Valavanis, Kimon P.