UNMANNED SYSTEMS: BEST OF 10 YEARS

Launched in 2013, the journal Unmanned Systems has published more than 200 articles reporting on the state-of-art development in the field. This review volume has selected the 15 best articles of the journal to mark its 10-year anniversary as well as the progress achieved in the field of unmanned systems in the last decade.

The articles selected in this celebratory volume cover all subjects related to the development of automatic machine systems in unmanned hardware platforms (aerial, ground, underwater and unconventional platforms), unmanned software systems, energy systems, modelling and control, communications systems, computer vision systems, sensing and information processing, navigation and path planning, computing, information fusion, multi-agent systems, mission management, machine intelligence, artificial intelligence, and innovative application case studies.

An analytical review that examines the selected articles under the human cognitive perceptual cycle, to perceive, learn, remember, and think about information is also included in this collection.

Contents:

• Unmanned Systems 10 Years On
• Mission and Motion Planning:
  • Dynamic Mission Planning for Communication Control in Multiple Unmanned Aircraft Teams (Andrew N Kopeikin, Sameera S Ponda, Luke B Johnson, Jonathan P How)
  • Heterogeneous Task Allocation and Sequencing via Decentralized Large Neighborhood Search (Armin Sadeghi, Stephen L Smith)
  • A Survey of Motion and Task Planning Techniques for Unmanned Multicopter Systems (Menglu Lan, Shupeng Lai, Tong H Lee, Ben M Chen)
  • Trajectory Planning and Control of a Quadrotor Choreography for Real-Time Artist-in-the-Loop Performances (Michael El-Jiz, Luis Rodrigues)
• UAV Systems, Localization and Control:
  • A Survey of Small-Scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Recent Advances and Future Development Trends (Guowei Cai, Jorge Dias, Lakmal Seneviratne)
  • Design of a Hybrid Aerial Robot with Multi-Mode Structural Efficiency and Optimized Mid-Air Transition (Jun En Low, Danial Sufiyan, Luke Soe Thura Win, Gim Song Soh, Shaohui Foong)
  • Survey on Localization Systems and Algorithms for Unmanned Systems (Shenghai Yuan, Han Wang, Lihua Xie)
  • Active Control of a UAV Helicopter with a Slung Load for Precision Airborne Cargo Delivery (Keeryun Kang, J V R Prasad, Eric Johnson)
  • Dynamic Visual Servoing for a Quadrotor Using a Virtual Camera (Geoff Fink, Hui Xie, Alan F Lynch, Martin Jagersand)
  • Development and Flight Test Evaluations of an Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance System for a Rotary-Wing UAV (Keeryun Kang, J V R Prasad)
• Multi-agent Systems:
  • A Review of Recent Advances in Coordination Between Unmanned Aerial and Ground Vehicles (Yulong Ding, Bin Xin, Jie Chen)
  • Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems with Control-Affine Nonlinear Dynamics (Haiyun Hu, Se Young Yoon, Zongli Lin)
  • Affine Formation Algorithms and Implementation Based on Triple-Integrator Dynamics (Okechi Onuoha, Hilton Tnunay, Zhenhong Li, Zhengtao Ding)
  • Leader-Following Adaptive Consensus of Multiple Uncertain Rigid Body Systems over Jointly Connected Networks (Tianqi Wang, Jie Huang)
  • Reinforcement Learning Applications in Unmanned Vehicle Control: A Comprehensive Overview (Hao Liu, Bahare Kiumarsi, Yusuf Kartal, Ahmet Taha Koru, Hamidreza Modares, Frank L Lewis)

Readership: Researchers and professionals specialising in autonomous and unmanned systems and vehicles, and related fields in engineering and artificial intelligence.