Issue 1-4/2016
Special Issue: Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Content (50 Articles)
Special Issue: Unmanned Aircraft Systems
YangQuan Chen, Fulvia Quagliotti, Youmin Zhang, Kimon Valavanis
An Integrated System for UAV Control Using a Neural Network Implemented in a Prototyping Board
Valeria Artale, Mario Collotta, Cristina Milazzo, Giovanni Pau, Angela Ricciardello
Self-Healing Control Design under Actuator Fault Occurrence on Single-rotor Unmanned Helicopters
Xin Qi, Juntong Qi, Didier Theilliol, Dalei Song, Youmin Zhang, Jianda Han
Robust Model-Free Control Applied to a Quadrotor UAV
Younes Al Younes, Ahmad Drak, Hassan Noura, Abdelhamid Rabhi, Ahmed El Hajjaji
Design and Control of a Single Tilt Tri-Rotor Aerial Vehicle
Roman Czyba, Grzegorz Szafrański, Andrzej Ryś
Optimized Discrete Control Law for Quadrotor Stabilization: Experimental Results
Omar Santos, Hugo Romero, Sergio Salazar, Orlando García-Pérez, Rogelio Lozano
Transition Flight Modeling of a Fixed-Wing VTOL UAV
B. Yuksek, A. Vuruskan, U. Ozdemir, M. A. Yukselen, G. Inalhan
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Security Using Recursive Parameter Estimation
Zachary Birnbaum, Andrey Dolgikh, Victor Skormin, Edward O’Brien, Daniel Muller, Christina Stracquodaine
Sky Region Obstacle Detection and Tracking for Vision-Based UAS Sense and Avoid
Giancarmine Fasano, Domenico Accardo, Anna Elena Tirri, Antonio Moccia, Ettore De Lellis
A Learning-Based Fault Tolerant Tracking Control of an Unmanned Quadrotor Helicopter
Zhixiang Liu, Chi Yuan, Youmin Zhang, Jun Luo
LPV Model-Based Tracking Control and Robust Sensor Fault Diagnosis for a Quadrotor UAV
Francisco Ronay López-Estrada, Jean-Christophe Ponsart, Didier Theilliol, Youmin Zhang, Carlos-Manuel Astorga-Zaragoza
Observer-based Adaptive Fuzzy Backstepping Tracking Control of Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Powered by Li-ion Battery
Fouad Yacef, Omar Bouhali, Mustapha Hamerlain, Nassim Rizoug
Autonomous Navigation for Micro Aerial Vehicles in Complex GNSS-denied Environments
Matthias Nieuwenhuisen, David Droeschel, Marius Beul, Sven Behnke
Appearance-Based Visual-Teach-And-Repeat Navigation Technique for Micro Aerial Vehicle
Trung Nguyen, George K. I. Mann, Raymond G. Gosine, Andrew Vardy
Rolling Horizon Path Planning of an Autonomous System of UAVs for Persistent Cooperative Service: MILP Formulation and Efficient Heuristics
Byung Duk Song, Jonghoe Kim, James R. Morrison
Autonomous Navigation of UAV in Foliage Environment
Jin Q. Cui, Shupeng Lai, Xiangxu Dong, Ben M. Chen
Online Replanning of Time-Efficient Flight Paths for Unmanned Rotorcraft
Simon Schopferer, Florian M. Adolf
Robust Range-Only SLAM for Unmanned Aerial Systems
Felipe R. Fabresse, Fernando Caballero, Iván Maza, Aníbal Ollero
Unmanned Aircraft Vector Field Path Following with Arrival Angle Control
Wooyoung Jung, Seunghan Lim, Dongjin Lee, Hyochoong Bang
Navigation and Cooperative Control Using the AR.Drone Quadrotor
Lucas Vago Santana, Alexandre Santos Brandão, Mário Sarcinelli-Filho
Exploration and Mapping Technique Suited for Visual-features Based Localization of MAVs
Jan Chudoba, Miroslav Kulich, Martin Saska, Tomáš Báča, Libor Přeučil
Cooperative Decision-Making Under Uncertainties for Multi-Target Surveillance with Multiples UAVs
J. Capitan, L. Merino, A. Ollero
Collision Avoidance for Multiple UAVs Using Rolling-Horizon Policy
Santiago Vera, José Antonio Cobano, Guillermo Heredia, Aníbal Ollero
On the Guidance of Multiple UAV using a Centralized Formation Control Scheme and Delaunay Triangulation
Alexandre Santos Brandão, Mário Sarcinelli-Filho
Experimental Implementation of a Leader-Follower Strategy for Quadrotors Using a Distributed Architecture
Juan A. Vargas-Jacob, José J. Corona-Sánchez, H. Rodríguez-Cortés
3D Formation Control of Autonomous Vehicles Based on Null-Space
Claudio Rosales, Paulo Leica, Mario Sarcinelli-Filho, Gustavo Scaglia, Ricardo Carelli
Swarm Distribution and Deployment for Cooperative Surveillance by Micro-Aerial Vehicles
Martin Saska, Vojtěch Vonásek, Jan Chudoba, Justin Thomas, Giuseppe Loianno, Vijay Kumar
Architecture for the Automatic Generation of Plans for Multiple UAS from a Generic Mission Description
Jorge Muñoz-Morera, Ivan Maza, Fernando Caballero, Anibal Ollero
Visual Based Landing for an Unmanned Quadrotor
Francesco Cocchioni, Emanuele Frontoni, Gianluca Ippoliti, Sauro Longhi, Adriano Mancini, Primo Zingaretti
Landing Control on a Mobile Platform for Multi-copters using an Omnidirectional Image Sensor
JeongWoon Kim, YeonDeuk Jung, DaSol Lee, David Hyunchul Shim
A Distributed Algorithm for Area Partitioning in Grid-Shape and Vector-Shape Configurations with Multiple Aerial Robots
José Joaquín Acevedo, Begoña C. Arrue, Ivan Maza, Anibal Ollero
SIGS: Synthetic Imagery Generating Software for the Development and Evaluation of Vision-based Sense-And-Avoid Systems
Adrian Carrio, Changhong Fu, Jean-François Collumeau, Pascual Campoy
A Vision-based Quadrotor Multi-robot Solution for the Indoor Autonomy Challenge of the 2013 International Micro Air Vehicle Competition
Jesús Pestana, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Paloma de la Puente, Adrian Carrio, Pascual Campoy
An Approach to Assess the Safety of ADS-B-based Unmanned Aerial Systems: Data Integrity as a Safety Issue
Daniel Baraldi Sesso, Lucio F. Vismari, Antonio Vieira da Silva Neto, Paulo S. Cugnasca, João B. Camargo Jr.
Rapid Prototyping of a Fixed-Wing VTOL UAV for Design Testing
Yucel Orkut Aktas, Ugur Ozdemir, Yasin Dereli, Ahmed Farabi Tarhan, Aykut Cetin, Aslihan Vuruskan, Burak Yuksek, Hande Cengiz, Serkan Basdemir, Mesut Ucar, Murat Genctav, Adil Yukselen, Ibrahim Ozkol, Metin Orhan Kaya, Gokhan Inalhan
Collaborative Intent Exchange Based Flight Management System with Airborne Collision Avoidance for UAS
Cengiz Pasaoglu, Nursel Akcam, Emre Koyuncu, A. Farabi Tarhan, Gokhan Inalhan
GPS Denied UAV Routing with Communication Constraints
Satyanarayana G. Manyam, Sivakumar Rathinam, Swaroop Darbha, David Casbeer, Yongcan Cao, Phil Chandler
The HAMSTER Data Communication Architecture for Unmanned Aerial, Ground and Aquatic Systems
Daniel Fernando Pigatto, Leandro Gonçalves, Guilherme Freire Roberto, Julio Fernando Rodrigues Filho, Natássya Barlate Floro da Silva, Alex Roschildt Pinto, Kalinka Regina Lucas Jaquie Castelo Branco
A Hardware-in-the-Loop Platform for Rotary-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Igor Henrique Beloti Pizetta, Alexandre Santos Brandão, Mário Sarcinelli-Filho
A Reactive Method for Collision Avoidance in Industrial Environments
D. Alejo, J. A. Cobano, G. Heredia, A. Ollero
Performance Analysis of Camera Rotation Estimation Algorithms in Multi-Sensor Fusion for Unmanned Aircraft Attitude Estimation
Tamas Zsedrovits, Peter Bauer, Antal Hiba, Mate Nemeth, Borbala Jani Matyasne Pencz, Akos Zarandy, Bálint Vanek, József Bokor
A Reliable Open-Source System Architecture for the Fast Designing and Prototyping of Autonomous Multi-UAV Systems: Simulation and Experimentation
Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Jesús Pestana, Paloma de la Puente, Pascual Campoy
An Automated Grid-Based Robotic Alignment System for Pick and Place Applications
Lukas Bearden, Ali Razban
A Review of Global Path Planning Methods for Occupancy Grid Maps Regardless of Obstacle Density
E. G. Tsardoulias, A. Iliakopoulou, A. Kargakos, L. Petrou
Efficient Cholesky Factor Recovery for Column Reordering in Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping
S. Touchette, W. Gueaieb, E. Lanteigne
A Novel Practical Technique to Integrate Inequality Control Objectives and Task Transitions in Priority Based Control
Enrico Simetti, Giuseppe Casalino