Future unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are designed to fly at long range and high endurance, and to perform complex and demanding tasks such as surveillance and reconnaissance, electronic warfare, command and control, target acquisition, and weapon guidance. The current preprogrammed ground control strategy will not be able to meet the task complexity, long range and high endurance requirements...

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...

This paper presents a decentralised multivehicle application of simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The UAVs are equipped with inertial measurement units (IMU), to determine the vehicles position, velocity and attitude, and vision cameras to detect features in the environment. This paper describes an algorithm that enables multiple vehicles to acqui...

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...

In the last years, the research on the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with onboard intelligent capabilities has done a lot of progress. This progress was motivated by the enormous military/civil applications of such vehicles accompanied with the technological progress in sensors, actuators, processors and power storage devices. The Planar Vertical Take Off and Landing aircraft (PVTOL) represen...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly popular over the past few years. The complexity of routing UAVs has not been fully investigated in the literature. In this survey, we aim to review recent contributions in UAV trajectory optimisation, UAV routing and contributions addressing these two problems simultaneously. A unified framework is introduced to describe UAV routing and ...

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...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are fast growing sector. Nowadays, the market offers numerous possibilities for off-the-shelf UAVs such as quadrotors. Until UAVs demonstrate advance capabilities such as autonomous collision they will be segregated and restricted to flight in controlled environments. This work presents a visual fuzzy servoing system for obstacle avoidance using UAVs. To accompli...

The increasing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones in different civil and military operations has attracted attention of many researchers and science communities. One of the most notable challenges in this field is supervising and controlling a group or a team of UAVs by a single user. Thereupon, we proposed a new intelligent adaptive interface (IAI) to overcome to this challenge. ...