Unmanned Aerial

In this book, a set of architectural requirements for integration is presented: the Architecture for Ethical Aerial Information Sensing or AERIS. AERIS provides a cohesive set of requirements for any architecture or set of architectures designed for safe, ethical, accurate aerial data collection. This work presents background about personal remote sensing (PRS) and the AggieAir unmanned aerials system (UAS) platforms, and the coming technologies of cyber-physical systems (CPSs), with motivating examples of how the two technologies can work together; shows how architecture drives the values of a system, which drives the functionality, risks, and rewards of the system dynamics and interactions with the environment around it, as well as introducing AERIS, the architecture for ethical remote information sensing.

An invaluable addition to the literature on UAV guidance and cooperative control, Cooperative Path Planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is a dedicated, practical guide to computational path planning for UAVs. One of the key issues facing future development of UAVs is path planning: it is vital that swarm UAVs/ MAVs can cooperate together in a coordinated manner, obeying a pre-planned course but able to react to their environment by communicating and cooperating. An optimized path is necessary in order to ensure a UAV completes its mission efficiently, safely, and successfully.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technology and their potential applications. It covers a broad spectrum of topics related to UAS, such as Autonomy and Control, Flight Dynamic and Control, Communication and Navigation, Sensing and Perception, Design and Simulation, and Materials and Mechanics. The book is targeted toward a technical audience, including researchers, engineers, and practitioners working in the field of unmanned aerial systems. It provides an in-depth and detailed treatment of the subject matter, offering thorough discussions of the underlying principles and technical details of UAS technology.

This comprehensive book deeply discusses the theoretical and technical issues of unmanned aerial vehicles for deployment by industries and civil authorities in Internet of Things (IoT) systems.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has become one of the rapidly growing areas of technology, with widespread applications covering various domains. UAVs play a very important role in delivering Internet of Things (IoT) services in small and low-power devices such as sensors, cameras, GPS receivers, etc. These devices are energy-constrained and are unable to communicate over long distances. The UAVs work dynamically for IoT applications in which they collect data and transmit it to other devices that are out of communication range. Furthermore, the benefits of the UAV include deployment at remote locations, the ability to carry flexible payloads, reprogrammability during tasks, and the ability to sense for anything from anywhere. Using IoT technologies, a UAV may be observed as a terminal device connected with the ubiquitous network, where many other UAVs are communicating, navigating, controlling, and surveilling in real time and beyond line-of-sight.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technology and their potential applications. It covers a broad spectrum of topics related to UAS, such as Autonomy and Control, Flight Dynamic and Control, Communication and Navigation, Sensing and Perception, Design and Simulation, and Materials and Mechanics. The book is targeted toward a technical audience, including researchers, engineers, and practitioners working in the field of unmanned aerial systems. It provides an in-depth and detailed treatment of the subject matter, offering thorough discussions of the underlying principles and technical details of UAS technology.