Autonomous Control Systems and Vehicles by
This book covers both the theory and application of autonomous control in robotics, autonomous vehicles, intelligent unmanned technologies and biomimetics. The text is enriched with some 300 useful and informative illustrations of unmanned vehicles.
Computer Vision in Vehicle Technology by
While they originated mostly in military applications, their use is rapidly expanding to commercial, scientific, recreational, agricultural, and other applications such as policing, peacekeeping and surveillance, product deliveries, aerial photography, agriculture, smuggling, and drone racing. The main objective of this edited book is to address various challenges and issues pertinent to the intelligent control of UMVs and UAVs
Cooperative Path Planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by
An invaluable addition to the literature on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) guidance and cooperative control, Cooperative Path Planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is a dedicated, practical guide to computational path planning for UAVs. One of the key issues facing future development of UAVs is path planning: it is vital that swarm UAVs/MAVs can cooperate together in a coordinated manner, obeying a pre-planned course but able to react to their environment by communicating and cooperating. An optimized path is necessary in order to ensure that a UAV completes its mission efficiently, safely and successfully.
Countermeasures for aerial drones by
This comprehensive resource explains the development of UAVs, drone threats, counter-UAV systems, and strategies to handle UAVs, focusing on the practical aspects of counter-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems and technologies. Theory, technical and operational practice with insights from industry and policing are covered, and the full rogue drone threat landscape and counter-drone technologies and systems is explored. The book provides insight into counter-drone strategy, developing effective counter-drone strategies and measures, as well as counter-drone programs and the regulatory frameworks governing the use of drones. It includes analysis of future drone and counter-drone challenges and highlights ongoing research and innovation activities and an examination of future drone technologies. Written by authors who have extensive academic, research, innovation, technical, industry and police operational investigative expertise at international level, this book is useful for the aviation sector, law enforcement and academia
Drone Wars by
Drones are transforming warfare through the use of artificial intelligence, drone swarms, and surveillance - leading to competition between the US, China, Israel, and Iran. Who will be the next drone superpower?
Handbook of Research on Design, Control, and Modeling of Swarm Robotics by
This book is a collection of the most important research achievements in swarm robotics thus far, covering the growing areas of design, control, and modeling of swarm robotics
Intelligent Autonomy for Unmanned Marine Vehicles: Robotic Control Architecture Based on Service-Oriented Agents by
This book presents an Intelligent Control Architecture (ICA) to enable multiple collaborating marine vehicles to autonomously carry out underwater intervention missions. The presented ICA is generic in nature but aimed at a case study where a marine surface craft and an underwater vehicle are required to work cooperatively.
Intelligent Coordination of UAV Swarm Systems by
This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Drones (ISSN 2504-446X)
available at:
www.mdpi.com/journal/drones/special issues/uav coordination)
Nonlinear Control of Robots and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by
Nonlinear Control of Robots and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: An Integrated Approach presents control and regulation methods that rely upon feedback linearization techniques. Both robot manipulators and UAVs employ operating regimes with large magnitudes of state and control variables, making such an approach vital for their control systems design. Numerous application examples are included to facilitate the art of nonlinear control system design, for both robotic systems and UAVs, in a single unified framework.
Research Handbook on Remote Warfare by
With eminent contributors from legal, government and military backgrounds, this Research Handbook addresses the legal implications of remote warfare and its significance for combatants, civilians, policymakers and international lawyers. Primarily focused on the legality of all forms of remote warfare, including targeted killings by drone, cyber-attacks, and autonomous weapons, each chapter gives a compelling insight beyond the standard and reactionary criticisms of these technologies.
Resilient Fusion Navigation Techniques: Collaboration in Swarm by
This book describes the resilient navigation techniques under the background of collaboration in swarm. The significance of this work is that it focuses on the navigation enhancement by collaboration in swarm rather than ground infrastructure, which exploit potentialities of swarm in GNSS restricted environment.
Although unmanned swarm is receiving greater attention, both through theoretical research and through increasing mention in the industrial developments, the navigation promotion by effective and efficient collaboration remains largely unexplored. While my scholarly work has explored some of the modeling, error characteristic, fusion algorithm, fault detection, and isolation aspects of the “adaptive navigation system” (such as the navigation system of robots and ground vehicles, aircrafts, aerospace vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles), the present book proposes the specialized investigation on the navigation with the resilient character, which could maintain the performance by essential collaboration with members in swarm in GNSS degradation environment.
This book focused on the resilient navigation techniques under the background of collaboration in swarm. The key techniques of collaborative resilient navigation are proposed, including the collaboration framework, collaborative observation modeling, geometry optimization, integrity augmentation, and fault detection. The experiments are also carried out to validate the effectiveness of the corresponding techniques.
Sensing and Control for Autonomous Vehicles by
This edited volume includes thoroughly collected on sensing and control for autonomous vehicles. There is a growing interest for cooperative and coordinated multi-vehicle systems, real-time re-planning, robust autonomous navigation systems and robust autonomous control of vehicles.
Shepherding UxVs for human-swarm teaming : an artificial intelligence approach to unmanned X vehicles by
The book discusses advanced artificial intelligence (AI) approaches needed to design smart robotic shepherding agents capable of controlling biological swarms or robotic swarms of unmanned vehicles. These smart shepherding agents are described with the techniques applicable to the control of Unmanned X Vehicles (UxVs) including air (unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs), ground (unmanned ground vehicles or UGVs), underwater (unmanned underwater vehicles or UUVs), and on the surface of water (unmanned surface vehicles or USVs).he book extends the discussion to human-swarm teaming by looking into the real-time analysis of human data during human-swarm interaction, the concept of trust for human-swarm teaming, and the design of activity recognition systems for shepherding. Presents a comprehensive look at human-swarm teaming; Tackles artificial intelligence techniques for swarm guidance; Provides artificial intelligence techniques for real-time human performance analysis
Swarm Intelligence, Volume 1: Principles, Current Algorithms, and Methods by
The book focuses on the principle and the current approaches of swarm intelligence algorithms for presenting the latest achievements in the principle and typical algorithms in recent years. The book mainly introduces the basic principles of typical swarm intelligence algorithms and some of their efficient improvements. Specifically, it not only includes the introductions and improvements of typical PSO, ACO and typical swarm intelligence algorithm as well as swarm robotics methods; furthermore, it also includes parts of the general swarm intelligent method research until now.
Swarm Intelligence, Volume 2: Innovation, New Algorithms, and Methods by
This book discusses several swarm intelligence algorithms, such as fireworks algorithm, predator-prey optimisation, ant lion optimiser, glowworm swarm optimisation, firefly algorithm, binary moth-flame optimisation algorithm, binary whale optimisation, grey wolf optimisation, interactive chaotic evolution and inclined planes system optimisation.
Swarm Intelligence, Volume 3: Applications by 
Swarm Troopers by
Small unmanned aircraft are already transforming warfare, with hand-launched scouts like the Raven and lethal tactical drones like Switchblade already in use by US forces. A bigger revolution is on the way, as swarming software allows a single operator to control large numbers of drones, and smartphone technology means they can be built for $1,000 each - by anybody, not just governments. This book looks at the history of drone warfare, the rise of big drones like the Predator and how they are being eclipsed by smaller unmanned aircraft. And how the future is being shaped by smartphone technology, swarm software, miniaturised munitions and energy-harvesting that allows small drones to fly forever. It also looks at why current air defense cannot stop the swarms, and what drone swarms will mean for the balance of power and future wars.
Team Cooperation in a Network of Multi-Vehicle Unmanned Systems by
Team Cooperation in a Network of Multi-Vehicle Unmanned Systems develops a framework for modeling and control of a network of multi-agent unmanned systems in a cooperative manner and with consideration of non-ideal and practical considerations. The main focus of this book is the development of "synthesis-based" algorithms rather than on conventional "analysis-based" approaches to the team cooperation, specifically the team consensus problems. The authors provide a set of modified "design-based" consensus algorithms whose optimality is verified through introduction of performance indices.
UAV Swarm Networks: Models, Protocols, and Systems by
A UAV swarm network should consider the dynamic network topology and establish robust routing layer protocols. This requires that UAV network protocol be adaptive to swarm shape changes. This book covers all the important aspects in the management of UAV swarm networks. It provides comprehensive coverage of the advanced network models, 7-layer protocols and system integration for UAV swarm networks. It discusses popular applications of UAV networks; swarming behaviors, routing schemes during formation, transport layer congestion control, 3D routing, GPS-free protocols, swarm network management via SDN, etc. It is an ideal resource for students and professionals interested in UAV systems and networks