Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, 2011

UAV Control.- control and Limitations of Navigating a Tail Rotor/Actuator Failed Unmanned Helicopter.- Indoor Hovering Control of Small Ducted-fan type OAV Using Ultrasonic Positioning System.- Vision Based Control for Fixed Wing UAVs Inspecting Locally Linear Infrastructure using Skid-to-Turn Maneuvers.- Dynamic Compensation for Control of a Rotary wing UAV using Positive Position Feedback.- Indoor UAV Control Using Multi-camera Visual Feedback.- Hovering Flight Improvement of a Quad-rotor mini UAV using Brushless DC motors.- Tracking, Guidance and Path Planning.- Stabilization and Trajectory Tracking of a Quad-rotor Using Vision.- A Catadioptric and Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera Pair Object Tracking System for UAVs.- Evaluation of Guidance Performance in Urban Terrains for Different UAV Types and Performance Criteria Using Spatial CTG Maps. -A Visual Global Positioning System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Used in Photogrammetric Applications.- Meshing and Simplification of High Resolution Urban Surface Data for UAV Path Planning.- Computational Modeling for Automatic Path Planning Based on Evaluations of the Effects of Impacts of UAVs on the Ground.- A Minimum Risk Approach for Path Planning of UAVs.- UAV Landing Systems and Techniques.- Automatic Takeoff tracking and Landing of a Miniature UAV on a moving Carrier Vehicle.- Fuzzy Logic Based Approach to Design of Autonomous Landing System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.- Vision-Based Landing of Light Weight Unmanned Helicopters on a Smart Landing Platform.- Monotonous Trend Estimation of Deck displacement Dynamics for Automatic Landing of Rotorcraft UAVs.- Estimation-Based Techniques for UAVs.- Fusion of IMU and Vision for Absolute Scale Estimation in Monocular SLAM.- High-Accuracy Estimation of GPS Sensor's Noise Statistics.- On-board and Ground Visual Pose Estimation Techniques for UAV Control.- UAV Swarms and Formations.- Autonomous Formation Flight Test of Multi-Micro Aerial Vehicles.- Towards Autonomous Micro UAV Swarms.- Search Strategies for Multiple UAV Search and Destroy Missions.- Air Vehicle Operations.- UAV Consumable Replenishment: Design Concepts for Automated Service Stations.- A Survey of Airworthiness and Certification for UAS.- Optical Brain Imaging to Enhance UAV Operator Training, Evaluation, and Interface Development.- UAV Applications.- Towards Palm-Size Autonomous Helicopters.- Intuitive 3D Maps for MAV Terrain Exploration and Obstacle Avoidance.- Vision based Position Control for MAVs using one single Artificial Landmark.-Calibration Techniques for UAV Antenna Arrays.- Real-Time Implementation of GPS Aided Low Cost Starpdown Inertial Navigation System.- Solar Airplane Conceptual Design and Performance Estimation.- Experimental Results in Multi-UAV Coordination for Disaster Management and Civil Security Applications.

most recent state-of-the-art published research; includes the latest information on air vehicle operations; includes emergency landing system techniques Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras