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Embedded Platforms for UAS Landing Path and Obstacle Detection

Part of the Studies in Systems, Decision and Control Book Series (volume 136)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-73174-2

ISBN: 978-3-319-73173-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jan 6, 2018

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Chapter 1Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

Papa, Umberto

Pages: 1 –11

[Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also denominated Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) by FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), have gained great attention for many applications in the scientific, civil, and military sectors. The aim of this book is to classify and choose a type of UAS and design an...
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Chapter 2Sonar Sensor Model for Safe Landing and Obstacle Detection

Papa, Umberto

Pages: 13 –28

[In UAS’s (Unmanned Aerial Systems) applications, it is important to find and track all scenario properties (e.g., obstacles). Performing obstacles and terrain avoidance from an UAS platform is challenging for several reasons (Valavanis 2007). The UAS limited payload and power available give...
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Chapter 3Atmosphere Effects on the SRS

Papa, Umberto

Pages: 29 –45

[Ultrasonic proximity sensors are a good compromise in terms of cost, energy efficiency, and accuracy for low distance obstacle detection. Various fields of interest could find this book interesting, for example, structural damage inspections in critical areas (e.g., L’Aquila earthquake, Italy,...
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Chapter 4Integration Among Ultrasonic and Infrared Sensors

Papa, Umberto

Pages: 47 –61

[In this chapter, another distance sensor was considered in order to integrate the distance measurements for a good UAS navigation information (Sobers et al. 2009; Mustapha et al. 2012).]
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Chapter 5Optical Sensor for UAS Aided Landing

Papa, Umberto

Pages: 63 –79

[The installation of an optic sensor (i.e., camera) to a UAS allows the vehicle to perform a variety of tasks autonomously (Valavanis in Advances in unmanned aerial vehicles—state of art and the road to autonomy, Springer Science & Business Media, 2007). This chapter presents UAS vision system...
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Chapter 6UAS Endurance Enhancement

Papa, Umberto

Pages: 81 –95

[Most civilian uses of UASs require the air vehicle to fly at speeds lower than 50 kts (70 km/h) and at low heights, and many applications need the ability of the aircraft to hover (e.g., power line inspection, subsurface geology, mineral resource analysis, or incident control by police and fire...
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Chapter 7Conclusions

Papa, Umberto

Pages: 97 –97

[This book wants to be a novelty contribution to the many topics covered in the UASs applications.]

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