Intelligent Autonomy of UAVs

Intelligent Autonomy of UAVs: Advanced Missions and Future Use provides an approach to the formulation of the fundamental task typical to any mission and provides guidelines of how this task can be solved by different generic robotic problems. As such this book aims to provide a systems engineering approach to UAV projects discovering the real problems that need to be resolved independently of the application. After an introduction to the rapidly evolving field of aerial robotics the book presents topics such as autonomy mission analysis human-UAV teams homogeneous and heterogeneous UAV teams and finally UAV-UGV teams. It then covers generic robotic problems such as orienteering and coverage. The book next introduces deployment patrolling and foraging while the last part of the book tackles an important application: aerial search tracking and surveillance. This book is meant for both scientists and practitioners. For practitioners it presents existing solutions that are categorized according to various missions: surveillance and reconnaissance 3D mapping urban monitoring precision agriculture forestry disaster assessment and monitoring security industrial plant inspection etc. For scientists it provides an overview of generic robotic problems such as coverage and orienteering; deployment patrolling and foraging; search tracking and surveillance. The design and analysis of algorithms raise a unique combination of questions from many fields including robotics operational research control theory and computer science. . Language: English