Abstract Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) have a variety of applications in our daily life that
have attracted the attention of many researchers around the world. There are a variety of …

The resurgence of airships has created a need for dynamics models and simulation
capabilities adapted to these lighter-than-air vehicles. However, the modeling techniques for …

The paper presents an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), consisting of several aerial
vehicles and a central station, for forest fire monitoring. Fire monitoring is defined as the …

To operate outdoors or on non-flat surfaces, mobile robots need appropriate data structures
that provide a compact representation of the environment and at the same time support …

In this paper, we describe a system that can carry out simultaneous localization and
map** (SLAM) in large indoor and outdoor environments using a stereo pair moving with …

Within the context of Simultaneous Localisation and Map** (SLAM),“loop closing” is the
task of deciding whether or not a vehicle has, after an excursion of arbitrary length, returned …

Blimps are a promising platform for aerial robotics and have been studied extensively for this
purpose. Unlike other aerial vehicles, blimps are relatively safe and also possess the ability …

This paper proposes vision-based techniques for localizing an unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) by means of an on-board camera. Only natural landmarks provided by a feature …

Personal assistant robots provide novel technological solutions in order to monitor people's
activities, hel** them in their daily lives. In this sense, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

Elevation maps are a popular data structure for representing the environment of a mobile
robot operating outdoors or on not-flat surfaces. Elevation maps store in each cell of a …