Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Chapter 1 Guest Editorial for the Special Volume On Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

Chapter 2 Development of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Piloting System with Integrated Motion Cueing for Training and Pilot Evaluation

Chapter 3 Networking Issues for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Chapter 4 UAVs Integration in the SWIM Based Architecture for ATM

Chapter 5 A Survey of UAS Technologies for Command, Control, and Communication (C3)

Chapter 6 Unmanned Aircraft Flights and Research at the United States Air Force Academy

Chapter 7 Real-Time Participant Feedback from the Symposium for Civilian Applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Chapter 8 Computer Vision Onboard UAVs for Civilian Tasks

Chapter 9 Vision-Based Odometry and SLAM for Medium and High Altitude Flying UAVs

Chapter 10 Real-time Implementation and Validation of a New Hierarchical Path Planning Scheme of UAVs via Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation

Chapter 11 Comparison of RBF and SHL Neural Network Based Adaptive Control

Chapter 12 Small Helicopter Control Design Based on Model Reduction and Decoupling

Chapter 13 Fuzzy Logic Based Approach to Design of Flight Control and Navigation Tasks for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Chapter 14 From the Test Benches to the First Prototype of the muFly Micro Helicopter

Chapter 15 Modeling and Global Control of the Longitudinal Dynamics of a Coaxial Convertible Mini-UAV in Hover Mode

Chapter 16 Subsonic Tests of a Flush Air Data Sensing System Applied to a Fixed-Wing Micro Air Vehicle

Chapter 17 Testing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Missions in a Scaled Environment

Chapter 18 A Framework for Simulation and Testing of UAVs in Cooperative Scenarios

Chapter 19 Distributed Simulation and Middleware for Networked UAS

Chapter 20 Design and Hardware-in-the-Loop Integration of a UAV Microavionics System in a Manned–Unmanned Joint Airspace Flight Network Simulator

Chapter 21 A Hardware Platform for Research in Helicopter UAV Control

Chapter 22 A Development of Unmanned Helicopters for Industrial Applications

Chapter 23 The Implementation of an Autonomous Helicopter Testbed

Chapter 24 Modeling and Real-Time Stabilization of an Aircraft Having Eight Rotors

Chapter 25 An Overview of the “Volcan Project”: An UAS for Exploration of Volcanic Environments

Chapter 26 FPGA Implementation of Genetic Algorithm for UAV Real-Time Path Planning

Chapter 27 Concepts and Validation of a Small-Scale Rotorcraft Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) Controller in a Unique Simulation Environment