Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: State of the Art and the Road to Autonomy by Kimon P. ValavanisEnglish | PDF | 2007 | 552 Pages | ISBN : 1402061137 | 12.74 MB
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have seen unprecedented levels of growth in military and civilian application domains. Fixed-wing aircraft, heavier or lighter than air, rotary-wing (rotorcraft, helicopters), vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned vehicles are being increasingly used in military and civilian domains for surveillance, reconnaissance, mapping, cartography, border patrol, inspection, homeland security, search and rescue, fire detection, agricultural imaging, traffic monitoring, to name just a few application domains.