Volume 61, Issue 1-4

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January 2011

Special Issue on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Issue Editor:

Kimon P. Valavanis

33 articles in this issue

From the Editor-in-Chief
Kimon P. Valavanis
EDITORIAL 13 November 2010 Pages: 1 - 4
Control and Limitations of Navigating a Tail Rotor/Actuator Failed Unmanned Helicopter
Richard D. Garcia
Ainsmar Brown
OriginalPaper 07 December 2010 Pages: 5 - 13
Indoor Hovering Control of Small Ducted-fan Type OAV Using Ultrasonic Positioning System
Jinok Shin
Sanki Ji
Sangdeok Park
OriginalPaper 27 October 2010 Pages: 15 - 27
Vision Based Control for Fixed Wing UAVs Inspecting Locally Linear Infrastructure Using Skid-to-Turn Maneuvers
Steven J. Mills
Jason J. Ford
Luis Mejías
OriginalPaper 28 October 2010 Pages: 29 - 42
Dynamic Compensation for Control of a Rotary wing UAV Using Positive Position Feedback
Bilal Ahmed
Hemanshu R. Pota
OriginalPaper 27 October 2010 Pages: 43 - 56
Indoor UAV Control Using Multi-Camera Visual Feedback
Hyondong Oh
Dae-Yeon Won
Antonios Tsourdos
OriginalPaper 01 December 2010 Pages: 57 - 84
Hovering Flight Improvement of a Quad-rotor Mini UAV Using Brushless DC Motors
A. Sanchez
L. R. García Carrillo
O. Garcia
OriginalPaper 12 October 2010 Pages: 85 - 101
Stabilization and Trajectory Tracking of a Quad-Rotor Using Vision
L. R. García Carrillo
E. Rondon
R. Lozano
OriginalPaper 12 October 2010 Pages: 103 - 118
A Catadioptric and Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera Pair Object Tracking System for UAVs
Metin Tarhan
Erdinç Altuğ
OriginalPaper 13 November 2010 Pages: 119 - 134
Evaluation of Guidance Performance in Urban Terrains for Different UAV Types and Performance Criteria Using Spatial CTG Maps
Zhaodan Kong
Bernie Mettler
OriginalPaper 27 October 2010 Pages: 135 - 156
A Visual Global Positioning System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Used in Photogrammetric Applications
Andrea Cesetti
Emanuele Frontoni
Sauro Longhi
OriginalPaper 23 November 2010 Pages: 157 - 168
Meshing and Simplification of High Resolution Urban Surface Data for UAV Path Planning
Florian-M. Adolf
Heiko Hirschmüller
OriginalPaper 22 October 2010 Pages: 169 - 180
Computational Modeling for Automatic Path Planning Based on Evaluations of the Effects of Impacts of UAVs on the Ground
Felipe Leonardo Lôbo Medeiros
José Demisio Simões da Silva
OriginalPaper 21 October 2010 Pages: 181 - 202
A Minimum Risk Approach for Path Planning of UAVs
Luca De Filippis
Giorgio Guglieri
Fulvia Quagliotti
OriginalPaper 12 November 2010 Pages: 203 - 219
Automatic Take Off, Tracking and Landing of a Miniature UAV on a Moving Carrier Vehicle
Karl Engelbert Wenzel
Andreas Masselli
Andreas Zell
OriginalPaper 23 October 2010 Pages: 221 - 238
Fuzzy Logic Based Approach to Design of Autonomous Landing System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Omer Cetin
Sefer Kurnaz
Okyay Kaynak
OriginalPaper 24 November 2010 Pages: 239 - 250
Vision-Based Landing of Light Weight Unmanned Helicopters on a Smart Landing Platform
Mohammad H. Mahoor
R. Godzdanker
K. P. Valavanis
OriginalPaper 06 November 2010 Pages: 251 - 265
Monotonous Trend Estimation of Deck Displacement for Automatic Landing of Rotorcraft UAVs
Xilin Yang
Matthew Garratt
Hemanshu Pota
OriginalPaper 16 October 2010 Pages: 267 - 285
Fusion of IMU and Vision for Absolute Scale Estimation in Monocular SLAM
Gabriel Nützi
Stephan Weiss
Roland Siegwart
OriginalPaper 12 November 2010 Pages: 287 - 299
On-board and Ground Visual Pose Estimation Techniques for UAV Control
Carol Martínez
Iván F. Mondragón
Pascual Campoy
OriginalPaper 20 November 2010 Pages: 301 - 320
Autonomous Formation Flight Test of Multi-Micro Aerial Vehicles
Dong Il You
David Hyunchul Shim
OriginalPaper 02 November 2010 Pages: 321 - 337
Towards Autonomous Micro UAV Swarms
Axel Bürkle
Florian Segor
Matthias Kollmann
OriginalPaper 27 October 2010 Pages: 339 - 353
Search Strategies for Multiple UAV Search and Destroy Missions
Joel George
Sujit P. B.
J. B. Sousa
OriginalPaper 27 October 2010 Pages: 355 - 367
UAV Consumable Replenishment: Design Concepts for Automated Service Stations
F. Paulo Kemper
Koji A. O. Suzuki
James R. Morrison
OriginalPaper 16 November 2010 Pages: 369 - 397
A Survey of Airworthiness and Certification for UAS
Giorgio Guglieri
Valeria Mariano
Alessandro Scola
OriginalPaper 22 October 2010 Pages: 399 - 421
Optical Brain Imaging to Enhance UAV Operator Training, Evaluation, and Interface Development
Justin Menda
James T. Hing
Paul Oh
OriginalPaper 08 December 2010 Pages: 423 - 443
Towards Palm-Size Autonomous Helicopters
Samir Bouabdallah
Christian Bermes
Roland Siegwart
OriginalPaper 02 December 2010 Pages: 445 - 471
Intuitive 3D Maps for MAV Terrain Exploration and Obstacle Avoidance
Stephan Weiss
Markus Achtelik
Roland Siegwart
OriginalPaper 12 November 2010 Pages: 473 - 493
Vision Based Position Control for MAVs Using One Single Circular Landmark
Daniel Eberli
Davide Scaramuzza
Roland Siegwart
OriginalPaper 06 November 2010 Pages: 495 - 512
Calibration Techniques for UAV Antenna Arrays
Hasan S. Mir
OriginalPaper 23 October 2010 Pages: 513 - 525
Real-Time Implementation of GPS Aided Low-Cost Strapdown Inertial Navigation System
L. R. Sahawneh
M. A. Al-Jarrah
Mamoun F. Abdel-Hafez
OriginalPaper 02 November 2010 Pages: 527 - 544
Solar Airplane Conceptual Design and Performance Estimation
Stefan Leutenegger
Mathieu Jabas
Roland Y. Siegwart
OriginalPaper 12 November 2010 Pages: 545 - 561
Experimental Results in Multi-UAV Coordination for Disaster Management and Civil Security Applications
Iván Maza
Fernando Caballero
Aníbal Ollero
OriginalPaper 08 December 2010 Pages: 563 - 585

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