The paper presents some aspects that have become critical in the context of guidance, navigation, and control of unmanned aerial vehicles. The envisioned cost-effectiveness of unmanned air vehicles in support of a variety of military and civilian applications has introduced basic and applied research challenges in areas such as levels of autonomy and “intelligence” of the platform, interaction ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) collaboratively play central roles in intelligence gathering and control in urban/border surveillance and crowd control. In this paper, we first propose a comprehensive planning and control framework based on dynamic-data-driven, adaptive multi-scale simulation (DDDAMS). We then discuss proposed algorithms enabling DDDAMS capab...

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are prohibitively expensive for use in civilian surveillance applications. This is in large part due to the manufactures need to recoup the costs of research and development. The more intelligence that is incorporated into unmanned vehicles, the more expensive it is to validate. At Cornell University an autopilot system for UAVs has been developed and ...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are gaining increasing interest thanks to their flexibility and versatility. However, these systems are very complex and a good simulation platform is needed. In this paper, a new Framework for simulation and fast prototyping of UAV control laws is presented. The Framework exploits the high realism of the simulations carried out in a three-dimensional virtual env...

We consider the problem of having a team of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) pursue a team of evaders while concurrently building a map in an unknown environment. We cast this problem in a probabilistic game-theoretic framework and consider two computationally feasible pursuit policies: greedy and global-max. We implement this scenario on a fleet of UGVs and UAV...

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...

Unmanned vehicles endowed with attributes of intelligence are finding applications in reconnaissance, surveillance, and rescue operations in both military and civilian domains. We are introducing a methodology to locate a number of such Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) optimally over an urban environment and identify and track potential ground targets using a particle filtering framework. The pa...

The number of tasks that nowadays are accomplished by using unmanned aerial vehicles is rising across many civil applications, including agriculture. Thus, this work aims at providing the reader with an overview agronomical use vehicles. starts a historical analysis aircrafts in agriculture, as pioneers their modern precision agriculture techniques, currently applied high users. This survey has...