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 ...

Constrained by the satellites orbits, Satellite Remote Sensing is difficult to achieve timeliness requirements. General aerial manned aircraft Remote Sensing is always delayed by the bad weather. Compared with Unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned Airship can fly more lower and slower and you can get more clearer image. So it is more suitable for large scale mapping and other engineering requireme...

Unmanned aerial and ground vehicle teams present a majoropportunity for expanded operation over individual autonomous vehicles alone. The different perspectives available for sensors, the different operating ranges and payload capabilities, and the ability to observe a target environment from all angles at once all add up to significant improvements in ability to search for and track targets, t...

Manually landing an unmanned aerial vehicle presents unique challenges since unmanned vehicle pilots require extensive training to become proficient in the landing task. Operators must therefore choose between a pilot controlling the vehicle from a ground station, or procurement of an automatic landing system. Although several autoland controllers exist for small or micro unmanned vehicles and ...

This paper deals with the inspection of pipeline by means of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The different methods of pipeline inspection, its technical and economic efficiency have been examined. The theoretical and experimental base for air monitoring on base of On Board Infrared Equipment (OBIE) have been examined. The method of pipeline inspection by means of UAV has been proposed. The descr...

In this paper, we present control systems for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which provides aerial support for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). The UGV acts as a mobile launching pad for the UAV. The UAV provides additional environmental image feedback to the UGV. Our UAV of choice is a Parrot ArDrone 2.0 quadcopter, a small four rotored aerial vehicle, picked for its agile flight and video ...

Research into reactive collision avoidance for unmanned aerial vehicles has been conducted on unmanned terrestrial and mini aerial vehicles utilising active Doppler radar obstacle detection sensors. Flight tests conducted by flying a mini UAV at an obstacle have confirmed that a simple reactive collision avoidance algorithm enables aerial vehicles to autonomously avoid obstacles. This builds up...

The focus of our research is to improve navigation capabilities of an offroad unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) by improving its perception range. We train an ortophoto classifier by using data gathered by UGV and then extrapolate the data into wider area by using aerial imagery from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The current progress report analyses feasibility of using satellite images instead o...

The main aim of this chapter is to give to the reader a complete overview about the general context in which the thesis is positioned. In a second part, the problems faced in the following chapters are introduced. Finally, we describe the proposed solutions and the thesis structure and organization. Chapter