This paper concerns about the human pilot or remote control system in UAV navigation. Demands for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) are increasing tremendously in aviation industry and research area. UAV is a flying machine that can fly with no pilot onboard and can be controlled by ground-based operators. In this paper, a comparison was made between different proposed remote control systems and de...

The purpose of this report is to provide a possible answer to the necessity of path planning and optimization for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) destined to a certain target search. The specific scenario here reported refers to the case in which a certain exploration has to be performed before a certain target signal is detected and exploited.

This paper presents aerodynamic and mechanical design, prototyping and flight control system design of a new unmanned aerial vehicle SUAVI (Sabanci University Unmanned Aerial VehIcle). SUAVI is an electric powered quad tilt-wing UAV that is capable of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) like a helicopter and long duration horizontal flight like an airplane. Aerodynamic and mechanical designs ar...

This paper presents a nonlinear robust control design procedure for a micro air vehicle, which uses the singular value (μ) and μ-synthesis technique. The optimal robust control law that combines parametric and lumped uncertainties of the micro UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) which are realized by serial connection of the Kestrel autopilot and the Gumstix microprocessor. Thus, the robust control f...

This report proposes an algorithm for planning the aiming direction of a vision sensor with limited field-of-view for tracking of multiple targets. The sensor is mounted in an actuated gimbal on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Dynamic constraints of the gimbal are included implicitly and a genetic algorithm is used to solve the optimization problem.

In the near future, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) usage will expand into the Naval aircraft carrier operating environment. The new and different capabilities of these vehicles will likely introduce numerous potential changes in the nature of deck operations. The presence of UAVs and wireless data communications will enable centralized planning and control of la...

–The UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) systems like unmanned autonomous helicopters are used in various missions of flight navigation and used to collect the environmental information of the surroundings. To realize the full functionalities of the UAV, the software part becomes a challenging problem. In this paper embedded real-time software architecture for unmanned autonomous helicopter is propos...

The advancement in digital photogrammetry has made photogrammetric technique become simpler, faster and lower cost. Currently, this method is quite popular in covering small and large area. This study examines the use of digital camera of high resolution in capturing aerial photograph based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as the airborne platform. The study area covered is the area of Universi...

For a fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) equipped with a gimbaled camera, we consider the problem of tracking a visual target while simultaneously bringing the UAV to orbit on a circular trajectory centered above the target. To achieve this kind of loitering behavior, we propose a feedback control method that is inspired by image-based visual servoing and makes use of a backstepping techn...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platforms are nowadays a valuable source of data for inspection, surveillance, mapping and 3D modeling issues. As UAVs can be considered as a lowcost alternative to the classical manned aerial photogrammetry, new applications in the shortand close-range domain are introduced. Rotary or fixed wing UAVs, capable of performing the photogrammetric data acquisition with...