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There has been tremendous emphasis in unmanned aerial vehicles, both of fixed
(airplanes) and rotary wing (vertical take off and landing, helicopters) types
over the past ten years. Applications span both civilian and military domains,
the latter being the most important at this stage.
This edited book provides a solid and diversified reference source related to
basic, applied research and development on small and miniature unmanned aerial
vehicles, both fixed and rotary wing. As such, the book offers background
information on the evolution of such vehicles over the years, followed by
modeling and control fundamentals that are of paramount importance due to
unmanned aerial vehicle model complexity, nonlinearity, coupling, inhirent
instability and parameter values uncertainty. Aspects of navigation, including
visual-based navigation and target tracking are discussed, followed by
applications to attitude estimation on micro unmanned aerial vehicles,
autonomous solar unmanned aerial vehicle, biomimetic sensing for autonomous
flights in near-earth environments, localization of air-ground wireless sensor
networks, decentralized formation tracking, design of an unmanned aerial vehicle
for volcanic gas sampling and design of an on-board processing controller for
miniature helicopters.
Table Of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xiii
List of Contributing Authors xvii
PART I: Background Information
1. Introduction 3
2. A Historical Perspective on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 15
PART II: Modeling and Control Fundamentals
3. Airplane Basic Equations of Motion and Open-Loop Dynamics 49
4. Control Fundamentals of Small/Miniature Helicopters: A Survey 73
5. A Tutorial Approach to Small Unmanned Helicopter Controller Design for Non-
aggressive Flights 119
6. Design and Control of a Miniature Quadrotor 171
PART III: Navigation Aspects
7. Obstacle and Terrain Avoidance for Miniature Aerial Vehicles 213
8. Vision Based Navigation and Target Tracking for Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles 245
9. Single and Multi-UAV Relative Position Estimation Based on Natural Landmarks
26
10. Evolutionary Algorithm Based Path Planning for Multiple UAV Cooperation 309
PART IV: Applications
11. Robust Nonlinear Observers for Attitude Estimation of Mini UAVs 343
12. Autonomous Solar UAV for Sustainable Flights 377
13. The Integration of a Multimodal MAV and Biomimetic Sensing for Autonomous
Flights in Near-Earth Environments 407
14. Dynamic Localization of Air-Ground Wireless Sensor Networks 431
15. Decentralized Formation Tracking of Multi-Vehicle Systems with Consensus-
Based Controllers 455
16. “Hardware in the Loop” Tuning for a Volcanic Gas Sampling UAV 473
17. A Modular On-board Processing System for Small Unmanned Vehicles 495
PART V: Epilogue
18. Conclusions and the Road Ahead 53
Product Details
* ISBN: 1402061137
* ISBN-13: 9781402061134
* Format: Hardcover, 543pp
* Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
* Pub. Date: August 2007
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