[内容简介]
Aerial robots can be considered as an evolution of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This book provides a quite complete overview of issues related to aerial robotics, addressing problems ranging from flight control to terrain perception and mission planning and execution. The major challenges and potentials of heterogeneous UAVs are comprehensively explored. It builds on the results of the European project COMETS, and highlights a number of key research topics in the area of UAV development, including communication, perception, teleoperation and decision making
The monograph emphasizes the current state of technology, the existing problems and potentialities of systems consisting of multiple UAVs which are heterogeneous in view of the different characteristics of the aerial vehicles, the different on-board payloads, and the different on-board information processing capabilities. The book also examines potential applications of UAVs and details a relevant application case: forest fire detection and monitoring.
[目次]
1 Introduction by Anibal Ollero and Ivan Maza
2 Decision Making in Multi-DAVs Systems: Architecture and Algorithms by Simon Lacroix and Rachid Alami and Thomas Lemaire and Gautier Hattenberger and Jeremi Gancet
3 Communication by Volker Remuss and Marek Musial and Gunter Hommel
4 Multi-DAV Cooperative Perception Techniques by Luis Merino and Fernando Caballero and Joaquin Ferruz and Johan Wiklund and Per-Erik Forssen and Anibal Ollero
5 Autonomous Helicopters by Volker Remuss and Carsten Deeg and Marek Musial and Gunter Hommel and Manuel Bejar and Federico Cuesta and Anibal Ollero
6 Airship Control by Leonardo Solaque and Simon Lacroix
7 Teleoperation Tools by Nicolas Pena and Federico Cuesta and Anibal Ollero and Carlos Nogales and Francisco Lopez-Pichaco
8 Multi-DAV Experiments: Application to Forest Fires by J. R. Martinez-de-Dios and Luis Merino and Anibal Ollero and Luis M. Ribeiro and Xavier Viegas
9 Conclusions and Future Directions by Anibal Ollero and Ivan Maza
Author Index 233
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