TY - BOOK ID - 4798207 TI - Autonomous Flying Robots : Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Micro Aerial Vehicles AU - Nonami, Kenzo AU - Kendoul, Farid AU - Suzuki, Satoshi AU - Wang, Wei AU - Nakazawa, Daisuke AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2010 SN - 9784431538561 9784431538554 PB - Tokyo Springer Japan Imprint Springer DB - UniCat KW - Engineering. KW - Control, Robotics, Mechatronics. KW - Computer Hardware. KW - Computer hardware. KW - Ingénierie KW - Drone aircraft KW - Micro air vehicles KW - Vehicles, remotely piloted. KW - Roboter KW - Control systems. KW - Mathematical models. KW - Automatic control. KW - Roboter. KW - Vehicles, remotely piloted KW - Unmanned vehicles KW - Vehicles KW - Radio control KW - Remote control KW - MAVs (Dome aircraft) KW - Micro aerial vehicles KW - Micro aircraft KW - Drones (Aircraft) KW - Pilotless aircraft KW - Remotely piloted aircraft KW - UAVs (Unmanned aerial vehicles) KW - Unmanned aerial vehicles KW - Flying-machines KW - Vehicles, Remotely piloted KW - Airplanes KW - Flight control KW - Control systems KW - Mathematical models KW - Automatic control KW - MAVs (Drone aircraft) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4798207 AB - The advance in robotics has boosted the application of autonomous vehicles to perform tedious and risky tasks or to be cost-effective substitutes for their - man counterparts. Based on their working environment, a rough classi cation of the autonomous vehicles would include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), - manned ground vehicles (UGVs), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), and autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs). UAVs, UGVs, AUVs, and ASVs are called UVs (unmanned vehicles) nowadays. In recent decades, the development of - manned autonomous vehicles have been of great interest, and different kinds of autonomous vehicles have been studied and developed all over the world. In part- ular, UAVs have many applications in emergency situations; humans often cannot come close to a dangerous natural disaster such as an earthquake, a ood, an active volcano, or a nuclear disaster. Since the development of the rst UAVs, research efforts have been focused on military applications. Recently, however, demand has arisen for UAVs such as aero-robotsand ying robotsthat can be used in emergency situations and in industrial applications. Among the wide variety of UAVs that have been developed, small-scale HUAVs (helicopter-based UAVs) have the ability to take off and land vertically as well as the ability to cruise in ight, but their most importantcapability is hovering. Hoveringat a point enables us to make more eff- tive observations of a target. Furthermore, small-scale HUAVs offer the advantages of low cost and easy operation. ER -