International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems: Volume 1 Issue 2

Subjects:

Table of contents - Special issue of the 8th international conference on intelligent unmanned systems

Guest Editors: Professor Agus Budiyono

Towards autonomous localization and mapping of AUVs: a survey

Ling Chen, Sen Wang, Klaus McDonald‐Maier, Huosheng Hu

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate two key elements of localization and mapping of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), i.e. to overview various sensors and…

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Heuristic path planning of unmanned aerial vehicle formations

Takuma Hino, Takeshi Tsuchiya

The purpose of this research is to propose a novel method to plan paths of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) formations. This is to make use of the aerodynamic advantage of formation…

Aerodynamic and stability characteristics of NACA4412 in ground effects

Wang Hao, CJ Teo, BC Khoo, CJ Goh

The potential increase in aerodynamic efficiency whilst operating in close proximity to the ground has stimulated substantial interests in the design and applications of…

The application of extended Kalman filtering to autonomous formation flight of small UAV system

Yi‐Ren Ding, Yi‐Chung Liu, Fei‐Bin Hsiao

The purpose of this paper is to present a small UAV system with autonomous formation flight capability, the Swallow UAV system, and the application of an extended Kalman filter…

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Evaluation of quad ducted‐fan helicopter

Masafumi Miwa, Shinji Uemura, Yasuyuki Ishihara, Akitaka Imamura, Joon‐hwan Shim, Kiyoshi Ioi

With the purpose of clearing up the risk to rotor blades, this paper develops a quad ducted‐fan helicopter using four ducted‐fans instead of four rotor blades in a quad rotor…

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ISSN:

2049-6427

Online date, start – end:

2013

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Mr John Page