Unmanned aerial vehicles : breakthroughs in research and practice

"This book is a critical source of academic knowledge on the design, construction, and maintenance of drones, as well as their applications across all aspects of society. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, and situation awareness"...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author Information Resources Management Association
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Hershey, PA : Engineering Science Reference, an imprint of IGI Global, [2019]
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781522583677
152258367X
9781522583653
9781522583660
1522583661
1522583653
Physical Description1 online resource (xxii, 558 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Section 1. Algorithms and mathematical models. Chapter 1. Intelligent drones improved with algae algorithm ; Chapter 2. Dynamic modeling and control techniques for a quadrotor ; Chapter 3. Cockroach inspired shelter seeking for holonomic swarms of flying robots
  • Section 2. Control, design, and simulations. Chapter 4. Cross-layer scheme for meeting QoS requirements of flying ad-hoc networks: qos requirements of flying ad-hoc networks ; Chapter 5. A perceptual computing based gesture controlled quadcopter for visual tracking and transportation ; Chapter 6. Multimodal human aerobotic interaction
  • Section 3. Decision support systems. Chapter 7. Intelligent fighter pilot support for distributed unmanned and manned decision making ; Chapter 8. Applications of decision-support systems in sociotechnical systems
  • Section 4. Detection, imaging, and sensor technologies. Chapter 9. Skin detection with small unmanned aerial systems by integration of area scan multispectral imagers and factors affecting their design and operation ; Chapter 10. Compute-efficient geo-localization of targets from UAV videos: real-time processing in unknown territory ; Chapter 11. Alternative methods for developing and assessing the accuracy of UAV-derived dems ; Chapter 12. A practical UAV remote sensing methodology to generate multispectral orthophotos for vineyards: estimation of spectral reflectance using compact digital cameras ; Chapter 13. The role of affective computing for improving situation awareness in unmanned aerial vehicle operations: a US perspective ; Chapter 14. Chemical plume tracing and mapping via swarm robots
  • Section 5. Government and public welfare use. Chapter 15. A centralized autonomous system of cooperation for UAVs- monitoring and USVs- cleaning ; Chapter 16. Models for drone delivery of medications and other healthcare items
  • Section 6. Military use and ethics. Chapter 17. Lethal military robots: who is responsible when things go wrong? ; Chapter 18. Autonomous systems in a military context (part 1): a survey of the legal issues ; Chapter 19. Autonomous systems in a military context (part 2): a survey of the ethical issues ; Chapter 20. Drone warfare: ethical and psychological issues ; Chapter 21. War 2.0: drones, distance and death ; Chapter 22. Robots in warfare and the occultation of the existential nature of violence
  • Section 7. Regulations and privacy. Chapter 23. Drones in the U.S. National Airspace System ; Chapter 24. An analysis of unmanned aircraft registration effectiveness ; Chapter 25. Drones and privacy.