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Features

Introduces the basics of civilian missions for small drones
Describes the mission planning framework
Gives background information on generic robotic methods
Proceeds from basic to advanced methods
Details the mathematical underpinnings of each concept
Summary

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.



Table of Contents

1 Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems
1.3 Unmanned Aerial System
1.4 Case Studies
1.5 Conclusions

2 Mission Framework
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Autonomy
2.3 Homogeneous UAV Team
2.4 Heterogeneous UAVs Team
2.5 UAVUGV Teams
2.6 Mission Analysis
2.7 Conclusion

3 Orienteering and Coverage
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Operational Research Preliminaries
3.3 Orienteering
3.4 Coverage
3.5 Conclusion

4 Deployment, Patrolling, and Foraging
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Aerial Deployment
4.3 Patrolling
4.4 Foraging
4.5 Conclusion

5 Search, Tracking and Surveillance
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Basics of Search Theory and Decision Support
5.3 Information Gathering
5.4 Mobility of Targets
5.5 Target Search and Tracking
5.6 Surveillance
5.7 Conclusion

6 General Conclusions

7 Acronyms