Future unmanned systems in the military will be highly heterogeneous in nature, with vehicles from multiple domains—aerial, underwater, and land—working in collaborative teams to complete a variety of missions. The complexity of supervising these teams will be enormous and will rely on human creativity, judgment, and experience. Therefore, the design and development of mission planning and moni...

Massive small unmanned aerial vehicles are envisioned to operate in the near future. While there are lots of research problems need to be addressed before dense operations can happen, trajectory modeling remains as one of the keys to understand and develop policies, regulations, and requirements for safe and efficient unmanned aerial vehicle operations. The fidelity requirement of a small unman...

in the past decade, paying attention to the vertical fliers has been noted by most of the scientist and researchers, because of their exclusive features. The special capabilities of these, reducing radar identifier, low risk for human life, no restrictions on size and uses such as photography, survey, press coverage, checking, power lines, meteorological analysis, traffic, monitoring, in urban ...

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In this paper we describe an experimental apparatus developed in our laboratory for research and advanced teaching purposes. The device consists in an untethered spherical vehicle that autonomously rolls on the laboratory floor, and can reach arbitrary positions and orientations in the environment. The kinematics of the vehicle are nonholonomic, and result from the combination of the kinematics...