UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is very rapidly growing area of flying objects. Various tasks and possible areas of UAVs use are generating increasing demand for various types and designs. Thanks to simpler certification requirements UAV market could be used as a test field for various new technologies like wide use of modern electric systems. One of the area where electric systems could be impleme...

This paper focuses on designing and implementation of fractional order proportional integral (PIα) flight controller on a small fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). It describes mainly the controller design and simulation studies. The basics of UAV flight control are introduced first with a special emphasis on small UAV platforms. Time domain system identification methods are tried on the ...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems offered many advantages in several mapping applications such as slope mapping, geohazard studies, etc.This study utilizes UAV system for large scale stream mapping by using digital camera attached to the UAV.The digital camera combined with the UAV form a data acquisition system. This study only concentrates on one type of rotor wing UAV. It is becaue rotor...

n the first part of this two-part series, we introduced the hardware used in the Santa Cruz Low-cost UAV GNC System (SLUGS), an open-source unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) autopilot primarily focused on supporting guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) research. In this article, we’ll focus on the software architecture and algorithms. We’ll also present results from temperature compensation, sen...

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is useful for various tasks ranging from aerial surveillance, homeland security and positioning operations. The capability for the unmanned aerial vehicles to operate autonomously in real environments is a great challenge. With a full featured UAV system, an aircraft could be competent for these tasks. Advances in computing, sensors, and communicatio...

In this paper, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted cooperative communication system is studied, wherein a source transmits information to the destination through an energy harvesting decode-and-forward UAV. It is assumed that the UAV can freely move in between the source-destination pair to set up line of sight communications with the both nodes. Since the battery of the UAV may be limite...

The paper discusses the development of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based optical system for tracking individual Australian plague locusts. Managing and monitoring of locust swarms is important for minimising damage to agriculture, and the optical tracker combines the benefits of aerial photography and tagged insects to help with this process. Optical transponders are attached to the upper ...

In this paper we aim to discuss adaptive flocking control of multiple Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) by using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). We utilize a Quadrotor to provide the positions of all agents and also to manage the shrinking or expanding of the agents with respect to the environmental changes. The proposed method adaptively causes changing in the sensing range of the ground robot...