A Novel Cooperative Relaying-Based Vertical Handover Technique for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Novel Levenberg-Marquardt based learning algorithm for unmanned aerial vehicles

In this paper, a Levenberg-Marquardt inspired sliding mode control theory based adaptation laws are proposed to train an intelligent fuzzy neural network controller for a quadrotor aircraft. The proposed controller is used to control and stabilize a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle in the presence of periodic wind gust. A proportional-derivative controller is firstly introduced based on which ...

Autonomous Vertical Recovery of Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Reconfigurable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been developing dramatically due to wars and miniaturisation of technology, which has made the UAV industry a very lucrative business. Research organisations have been funded by various research committees or military groups to push UAV developments at a very fast pace. Although these UAVs are high in capability, they are limited to a single use application ...

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

This report presents a technology warning assessment based on National Academies' methodology. The particular technology area analyzed relates to fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (AUAVs) from the perspective of the United States government with the objective to assess AUAV technology with the goal of strongly enabling, promoting and increasing economic growth. Focus The scope of this r...

Cooperative Flight Guidance of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

As robotic platforms and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) increase in sophistication and complexity, the ability to determine the spatial orientation and placement of the platform in real time (localization) becomes an important issue. Detecting and extracting locations of objects, barriers, and openings is required to ensure the overall effectiveness of the device. Current methods to achieve lo...