Autonomous unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are critical to current and future military, civil,
and commercial operations. Despite their importance, no previous textbook has accessibly …

Recent advances in miniaturizing of computing, communication, sensing, and actuation
have made it feasible to envision large numbers of autonomous vehicles (air, ground, and …

A fundamental aspect of autonomous vehicle guidance is planning trajectories. Historically,
two fields have contributed to trajectory or motion planning methods: robotics and dynamics …

Multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), although originally designed and developed
for defence and military purposes, in the last ten years have gained momentum, especially …

Numerous applications require aerial surveillance. Civilian applications include monitoring
forest fires, oil fields, and pipelines and tracking wildlife. Applications to homeland security …

A well-known path-planning technique for mobile robots or planar aerial vehicles is to use
Dubins paths, which are minimum-distance paths between two configurations subject to the …

An efficient and analytical continuous-curvature path-smoothing algorithm, which fits an
ordered sequence of waypoints generated by an obstacle-avoidance path planner, is …

We consider finding a time-optimal trajectory for an airplane from some starting point and
orientation to some final point and orientation. Our model extends the Dubins car by LE …

Purpose–In the previous decade, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have turned into a
subject of enthusiasm for some exploration associations. UAVs are discovering applications …

This paper uses a team of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to cooperatively search, an area of
interest that contains regions of opportunity and regions of potential hazard. The objective of …