Autonomous Control Systems and Vehicles: Intelligent Unmanned Systems

by Kenzo Nonami (editor)

Flight Demonstrations of Fault Tolerant Flight Control using Small UAVs.- Unmanned Aerial and Ground Vehicle Recent Work and Open Problems.- Cognitive Developmental Robotics - from physical interaction to social one -.- Towards a Unified Framework for UAS Autonomy and Technology Readiness Assessment (ATRA).- Control Scheme for Automatic Take off and Landing of Small Electric Helicopter.- Evaluation of an Easy Operation System for Unmanned Helicopter.- Control of Ducted Fan Flying Object Using Thrust Vectoring.- Circular Formation Control of Multiple Quad-Rotor Aerial Vehicles.- Decentralised Formation Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Virtual Leaders.- Aerodynamics and Flight Stability of Bio-inspired Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles.- Development and Operational Experiences of UAVs for Scientific Research in Antarctica.- Circularly Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar onboard Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.- Modeling and Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots - from kinematics to dynamics with slipping and skidding.- Consideration of Mounted Position of Grousers on Flexible Wheel for Lunar Exploration Rovers to Traverse Loose Soil.- Optimal Impedance Control with TSK-type FLC for Hard Shaking Reduction on Hydraulically Driven Hexapod Robot.- LRF Assisted Autonomous Walking in Rough Terrain for Hexapod Robot COMET-IV.- Walking Directional Control of Six-legged Robot by Time-varying Feedback System.- Design and Operation Analysis of Hybrid AUV.- Ultrasound Energy Transmission for WaFLES-Support Intra-abdominal Micro Robots.- Simulation of Supercavitating Flow Accelerated by Shock.- Dynamics of Vortices shed from an Elastic Heaving Thin Film by Fluid

328 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013