Book description
There is increasing interest in the potential of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and MAV (Micro Air Vehicle) technology and their wide ranging applications including defence missions, reconnaissance and surveillance, border patrol, disaster zone assessment and atmospheric research. High investment levels from the military sector globally is driving research and development and increasing the viability of autonomous platforms as replacements for the remotely piloted vehicles more commonly in use.
UAV/UAS pose a number of new challenges, with the autonomy and in particular collision avoidance, detect and avoid, or sense and avoid, as the most challenging one, involving both regulatory and technical issues.
Sense and Avoid in UAS: Research and Applications covers the problem of detect, sense and avoid in UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) in depth and combines the theoretical and application results by leading academics and researchers from industry and academia.
Key features:
Presents a holistic view of the sense and avoid problem in the wider application of autonomous systems
Includes information on human factors, regulatory issues and navigation, control, aerodynamics and physics aspects of the sense and avoid problem in UAS
Provides professional, scientific and reliable content that is easy to understand, and
Includes contributions from leading engineers and researchers in the field
Sense and Avoid in UAS: Research and Applications is an invaluable source of original and specialised information. It acts as a reference manual for practising engineers and advanced theoretical researchers and also forms a useful resource for younger engineers and postgraduate students. With its credible sources and thorough review process, Sense and Avoid in UAS: Research and Applications provides a reliable source of information in an area that is fast expanding but scarcely covered.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- About the Editor
- About the Contributors
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Part I: Introduction
- Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 2: Performance Tradeoffs and the Development of Standards1
- 2.1 Scope of Sense and Avoid
- 2.2 System Configurations
- 2.3 S&A Services and Sub-functions
- 2.4 Sensor Capabilities
- 2.5 Tracking and Trajectory Prediction
- 2.6 Threat Declaration and Resolution Decisions
- 2.7 Sense and Avoid Timeline
- 2.8 Safety Assessment
- 2.9 Modeling and Simulation
- 2.10 Human Factors
- 2.11 Standards Process
- 2.12 Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Integration of SAA Capabilities into a UAS Distributed Architecture for Civil Applications
- Part II: Regulatory Issues and Human Factors
- Part III: SAA Methodologies
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Part VI: SAA Applications
- Chapter 9: AgentFly: Scalable, High-Fidelity Framework for Simulation, Planning and Collision Avoidance of Multiple UAVs
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Chapter 10: See and Avoid Using Onboard Computer Vision
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 State-of-the-Art
- 10.3 Visual-EO Airborne Collision Detection
- 10.4 Image Stabilization
- 10.5 Detection and Tracking
- 10.6 Target Dynamics and Avoidance Control
- 10.7 Hardware Technology and Platform Integration
- 10.8 Flight Testing
- 10.9 Future Work
- 10.10 Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 11: The Use of Low-Cost Mobile Radar Systems for Small UAS Sense and Avoid
- Epilogue
- Index
Product information
- Title: Sense and Avoid in UAS: Research and Applications
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2012
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470979754
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