Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Nonlinear Control for Uav Formation Flying

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) became a technology that have attracted considerable interest in the commercial markets for the military and civilian uses, such as surveillance and reconnaissance, aerial surveys for natural sources, traffic monitoring, early forest fire detection etc. This paper deals with Nonlinear and Model Predictive Control (MPC) of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) flying in ...

Tactical Information Operations for Autonomous Teams of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

1 This work was funded by the United States Office of Naval Research (ONR) under Contract Number N00014-00-C-305. Abstract—This paper presents a study of tactical information operations in autonomous teams of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). We discuss the special challenges presented by the autonomous UAV team model, and we present the self-sustaining, self-configuring dynamic network architec...

Autonomous Vertical Recovery of Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Cooperative Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Data Communication and for Monitoring Unstructured Environments

This article reports our progress in the developing of a system of cooperative autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles using the Multiagent Systems Engineering (MaSE) methodology. Illustrative fragments of the system models produced during the analysis phase are presented. Some topics of the MaSE methodology are discussed.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Networking Protocols

Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAV), more commonly known as drones, are widely used by military and civilian applications. They can be used for remote sensing, transportation, scientific research, armed attacks, search, and rescue. They can be used in applications where human presence is dangerous. Drones could be equipped with cameras, sensors, communications equipment, and weapons. UAVs can be pil...