1 I would like to thank the Members and Fellows the Royal Aeronautical Society, a number of people from EADS, Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems and several others in the UAS community both in the UK and Europe for discussing the issues raised in this and the original paper. But all the errors of omission and commission remain mine. The Revolution in Military Affairs — these days often known as milita...

This paper describes the software architecture of a multi-agent simulator specifically designed to simulate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The simulator has the aim of helping a developer to design a multi-agent application in which a team or flock of UAVs are employed for a certain mission in an environment. The basic feature of the described tool is the ability to simulate the real physics ...

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A 3D extension of the leader–follower approach of formation trajectory planning, applicable for a formation of autonomous quad–rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, is presented in this thesis. The proposed trajectory planning approach is based on the Model Predictive Control (MPC) method. The implemented system is suitable for deployment of groups of flying robots in environment with static as well ...

Small, inexpensive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) constructed from off the shelf components can be used in coordinated teams to sample the airspace and provide an accurate mapping of distributed particles from recent volcanic eruptions . The UAVs are constructed from hobbyist RC planes, where the remote control is bypassed by a programmable Arduino autopilot. These UAVs are equipped with low p...

This paper describes the design of Compact, accurate and inexpensive Fuzzy Logic Controllers and Fuzzy Inference Systems which estimates the attitude of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAV).Attitude refers to parameters of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle such as latitude, longitude and altitude and angles of rotation known as pitch and roll. A Soft Computing technique called Fuzzy Logic is used to design the ...