Received Sep 9, 2013 Revised Feb 2, 2014 Accepted Feb 26, 2014 This paper describes the actual flight movements of electric helicopters and how to implement a disaster area monitoring system using electric ground vehicles and electric helicopters. A quad-rotor helicopter and a hex-rotor helicopter were used in the proposed system, specifically, the AR.Drone 2.0 and the DJI Innovations frame kit...

Automatically controlling the flight of an unmanned aerial vehicle has typically been achieved using a suite of sensors to give reliable estimates of the vehicle’s position, orientation and velocity. Recently, on-board video cameras have been used as a primary source of these estimates, for the outdoor flight of large model helicopters. Here a much smaller, indoor model helicopter is automatica...

An autonomous robot with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capability could be useful for many applications including search and rescue, exploration in hazardous environments, monitoring, surveillance and investigation or even for intelligence. However design of a flight control system for a small UAV is a challenging task. Unlike in conventional aircrafts the control algorithm has to be imp...