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Lucio Pinello, Omar Hassan, Marco Giglio and Claudio Sbarufatti
An increase in aircraft availability and readiness is one of the most desired characteristics of aircraft fleets. Unforeseen failures cause additional expenses and are particularly critical when thinking about combat jets and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UA...
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Katsumi Watanabe, Takuma Shibata and Masazumi Ueba
In recent years, the use of fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has expanded, and the use of fixed-wing UAVs is expected to expand due to their usefulness for long-range operations. Different from manned aircraft, no provision is required regardin...
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Yoichi Suenaga and Kojiro Suzuki
This study examines the wing hinge oscillations in an aircraft concept that employs multiple wings, or small aircraft, chained at the wing tips through freely rotatable hinges with minimal structural damping and no mechanical position-locking system. Thi...
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Jianyong Zhang, Yanling Zhao, Zhenqi Hu and Wu Xiao
Rapid estimation of above-ground biomass (AGB) with high accuracy is essential for monitoring crop growth status and predicting crop yield. Recently, remote sensing techniques using unmanned aerial systems (UASs) have exhibited great potential in obtaini...
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Seyed Mohammad Hashemi, Ruxandra Mihaela Botez and Georges Ghazi
This paper introduces an innovative consensus algorithm for managing Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic (UTM) through blockchain technology, a highly secure consensus protocol, to allocate airspace. A smart contract was developed on the Ethereum blockchain...
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Ui-Jeong Lee, Sang-Jun Ahn, Dong-Young Choi, Sang-Min Chin and Dae-Sung Jang
As the usability of and demand for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have increased, it has become necessary to establish a UAS traffic management (UTM) system for efficient UAV operations at low altitudes. To avoid collisions with ground obstacles, other ...
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Eduardo Gallo and Antonio Barrientos
This article proposes a method to diminish the horizontal position drift in the absence of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signals experienced by the VNS (Visual Navigation System) installed onboard a UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle) by supplementing...
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Denis Kotarski, Petar Piljek, Marko Pranjic and Josip Kasac
This paper presents a novel concept of a modular multirotor aerial robotic platform that can be used for specific profiles of heavy payload missions. A comprehensive mathematical model of the multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is presented, which i...
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Maryam Taherinezhad and Alejandro Ramirez-Serrano
A cascade control architecture was proposed for the control of advanced unmanned aerial vehicles targeted for operation inside confined hazardous spaces. The aircraft of interest is a highly maneuverable system presenting highly coupled dynamics, enablin...
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Satoshi Hyokawa and Masazumi Ueba
The Aerospace Plane Research Center at the Muroran Institute of Technology is currently conducting research to develop enabling technologies for high-speed aircraft traveling at high altitudes and constructing experimental, small-scale, unmanned superson...
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