Multiple Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

✍ Scribed by Aníbal Ollero, Iván Maza (auth.), Aníbal Ollero, Iván Maza (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics 37
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Aerial robots can be considered as an evolution of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This book provides a quite complete overview of issues related to aerial robotics, addressing problems ranging from flight control to terrain perception and mission planning and execution. The major challenges and potentials of heterogeneous UAVs are comprehensively explored. It builds on the results of the European project COMETS, and highlights a number of key research topics in the area of UAV development, including communication, perception, teleoperation and decision making.

The monograph emphasizes the current state of technology, the existing problems and potentialities of systems consisting of multiple UAVs which are heterogeneous in view of the different characteristics of the aerial vehicles, the different on-board payloads, and the different on-board information processing capabilities. The book also examines potential applications of UAVs and details a relevant application case: forest fire detection and monitoring.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Decision Making in Multi-UAVs Systems: Architecture and Algorithms....Pages 15-48
Communication....Pages 49-65
Multi-UAV Cooperative Perception Techniques....Pages 67-110
Autonomous Helicopters....Pages 111-146
Airship Control....Pages 147-188
Teleoperation Tools....Pages 189-205
Multi-UAV Experiments: Application to Forest Fires....Pages 207-228
Conclusions and Future Directions....Pages 229-232
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Automation and Robotics; Control Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Systems Theory, Control