j a n u a r y / f e b r u a r y 2 0 0 8 www.insidegnss.com Once we tried to Google “UAV” and got more than two million citations on the Internet. Try to find the definition of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and you’ll uncover a welter of choices in the literature. So, let’s just say that a UAV is an aerial vehicle capable of sustained f light without the need for a human operator onboard. Althou...

Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAV), more commonly known as drones, are widely used by military and civilian applications. They can be used for remote sensing, transportation, scientific research, armed attacks, search, and rescue. They can be used in applications where human presence is dangerous. Drones could be equipped with cameras, sensors, communications equipment, and weapons. UAVs can be pil...

The studies in aerial vehicles modeling and control have been increased rapidly recently. In this paper , a coordination of two types of heterogeneous robots , namely unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) is considered. In this paper the UAV plays the role of a virtual leader for the UGVs. The system consists of a vision- based target detection algorithm that uses the ...

This document provides supplementary online material for the paper titled “Evolutionary coordination system for fixed-wing communications unmanned aerial vehicles” recently submitted to TAROS 2014. It mainly focuses on critical system components, namely the aerial vehicles kinematics model, link budget management and also addresses the issue of time synchronisation and algorithmic flow.

As robotic platforms and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) increase in sophistication and complexity, the ability to determine the spatial orientation and placement of the platform in real time (localization) becomes an important issue. Detecting and extracting locations of objects, barriers, and openings is required to ensure the overall effectiveness of the device. Current methods to achieve lo...

During recent years there has been growing interest in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Moreover, the necessity to control and navigate these vehicles has attracted much attention from researchers in this field. This is mostly due to the fact that the interactions between turbulent airflows apply complex aerodynamic forces to the system. Since the dynamics of a quadrotor are non-linear and the ...

Communication networks and strategies for cooperative UAV swarms have received significant attention. The main problem in controlling autonomous vehicles needs some knowledge of its altitude angles. These angles can be measured in different ways, for instance, using a conventional inertial navigation system. A novel approach to deal these problems by modern Micro electro mechanical systems (MEM...

Unmanned Vehicles are a fast-growing area of robotics due to their vast application scenarios and ability to perform tasks otherwise impossible. A particular branch, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, specifically multirotors, as seen an increasing interest in research due to their mechanical simplicity and agility. Within AEROWORKS, UAVs are explored as aerial workers, capable of doing autonomous recon...