This document provides supplementary online material for the paper titled “Evolutionary coordination system for fixed-wing communications unmanned aerial vehicles” recently submitted to TAROS 2014. It mainly focuses on critical system components, namely the aerial vehicles kinematics model, link budget management and also addresses the issue of time synchronisation and algorithmic flow.

Many environmental problems cover large areas, often in rough terrain constrained by natural obstacles, which makes intervention difficult. New technologies, such as unmanned aerial units, may help to address this issue. Due to their suitability to access and easily cover large areas, unmanned aerial units may be used to inspect the terrain and make a first assessment of the affected areas; how...

A new design for an immersive ground control station is presented that allows operators to monitor and control one or more semi-autonomous unmanned remote vehicles. This new ground station utilizes a virtual reality based visualization of the operational space and the graphical representation of multiple information streams to create a comprehensive immersive environment designed to significant...

quad rotor is a renowned underactuated unmanned aerial vehicle (uav) with widespread military and civilian applications. despite its simple structure, the vehicle suffers from inherent instability. therefore, control designers always face formidable challenge in stabilization and control goal. in this paper fuzzy membership functions of the quad rotor’s fuzzy controllers are optimized using nat...

Prescribed fires have many benefits, but existing ignition methods are dangerous, costly, or inefficient. This paper presents the design and evaluation of a micro-UAS that can start a prescribed fire from the air, while being operated from a safe distance and without the costs associated with aerial ignition from a manned aircraft. We evaluate the performance of the system in extensive controll...

The Sellafield nuclear plant is a 3 km2 site in north-west Cumbria, England, with a long and distinguished history of nuclear power generation, reprocessing and waste storage—with a current working emphasis on decommissioning and clean-up. Important to this safe, efficient and complete remediation of the site, routine monitoring is essential in a wide range of on-site environments and structure...