Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have come in a great diversity of several applications such military, construction, image and video mapping, medical, search rescue, parcel delivery, hidden area exploration, oil rigs power line monitoring, precision farming, wireless communication surveillance. The drone industry has been getting significant attention model manuf...

Civil applications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have increased rapidly over the last few years. In the realm of civil applications, many aircraft carry cameras that are physically fixed to the airframe. While this yields a simple and robust remote sensing platform, the imagery quality diminishes with increasing attitude errors. A rudder augmented trajectory correction method for small un...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer tremendous potential as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms for early detection of security threats and for acquisition and maintenance of situation awareness in crisis conditions. However, using their capabilities effectively requires addressing a range of practical and theoretical problems. The paper will describe progress by the...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are gaining increasing interest thanks to their flexibility and versatility. However, these systems are very complex and a good simulation platform is needed. In this paper, a new Framework for simulation and fast prototyping of UAV control laws is presented. The Framework exploits the high realism of the simulations carried out in a three-dimensional virtual env...

PEREIRA, E., BENCATEL, R., CORREIA, J., FÉLIX, L., GONÇALVES, G., MORGADO, J. AND SOUSA, J., 2009. Unmanned Air Vehicles for coastal environmental research. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 56 (Proceedings of the 10th International Coastal Symposium), pg – pg. Lisbon, Portugal, ISBN (Leave the number of pages blank) In the last decade we have witnessed an unprecedented development of Unmanned Ai...

Modelling rainfall-runoff processes in urban catchments has become an increasingly relevant issue, for instance to estimate the risk associated with urban flooding in densely populated areas. This needs hydrological models which, besides rainfall information, require good input data of detailed surface characteristics, such as imperviousness to accurately predict rainfall-runoff. One way to obt...

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...

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted much attention both in the research field and in the field of commercial deployment. Researchers recently started to study problems and opportunities connected with the usage, deployment and operation of teams of multiple autonomous UAVs. These multi-UAV scenarios are by their nature well suited to be modelled and simulated as mult...