The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) industry has been rapidly growing over the last decade. New UAV are being developed for military applications and also for civil usage. There is a strong correlation between the mission of a UAV and the avionics necessary to implement it. For this reason, the design, development and verification of UAV avionics, including hardware and software architecture, hav...

This paper reflects the state of art in the field of human factors for unmanned aerial vehicles. It describes the GEDIS-UAV guide, which is a modification of the GEDIS guide. It also shows the evaluation of the Sky-eye project graphical user interface as an example of the methodology. The analysis and evaluation method reflected in this paper may be used to improve the graphical user interface ...

An approach to a multi-facet task of situation identification by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is presented. The concept of multi-layered identification system based on soft computing approach to reasoning with incomplete, imprecise or vague information is discussed.

The aim of the research was to develop an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) hardware and software which can control a small size UAV (with 1–10 kg takeoff weight) from takeoff to landing. The research was based on AERObot V5 autopilot, developed and tested previously by us. AERObot can control a chosen aerial vehicle on a predefined route and altitude reliably but requires manual takeoff and landin...

This paper presents an approach for defining Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) missions on a high level. Current methods for UAV mission specification are evaluated and their deficiencies are analyzed. From these findings, a new graphical specification language for UAV missions is proposed, which is targeted towards typical UAV users from various domains rather than computer science experts. The re...

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...

The paper puts forward an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fixed-point reconnaissance route planning method. The method introduces the improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) method to the planning of UAV reconnaissance route and adds the objective value, effective reconnaissance route and other factors affecting UAV reconnaissance route in the objective function of particle swam to obtain the...

In this paper a combination of Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) and Model 1 Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) will be developed to stabilize and control a 2 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The control must be able to direct the 3 airplane towards different waypoints while at the same time maintaining the UAV 4 stable. Also, the control should be transferable to similar UAV models with little...

Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) has recently become popular in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path planning. Similar to other evolutionary algorithms, the performance of BBO is affected when the parameter setting is not finely tuned. Therefore, the BBO parameters are optimized in this research particularly for application in UAV path planning. Each combination setting of parameters is simu...

[1] ABSTRACT The International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC) is designed for colleges and universities to compete in the design and construction of an autonomous aerial vehicle. Pima Community College is being represented by the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Club. The UAV Club has designed a primary vehicle and a drop vehicle that will be used in the competition. They were designed with au...