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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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Dimitrios Mitridis, Stavros Kapsalis, Dimitrios Terzis and Pericles Panagiotou
The current study provides a thorough analysis and evaluation of fixed-wing UAV correlations with respect to NATO classification, region of production, entry-into-service (EIS) date and other operational specifications. A set of 202 existing fixed-wing p...
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Junfeng Wu, Huan Wang, Shanshan Li and Shuguang Liu
This paper investigates the distance-based formation and cooperative path-following control problems for multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this study, we design the distance-based formation control structure to achieve the virtual l...
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Manaf Muhammed and Muhammad Shakeel Virk
Ice accretion on rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (RWUAVs) needs to be studied separately from the fixed-wing UAVs because of the additional flow complexities induced by the propeller rotation. The aerodynamics of rotatory wings are extremely challen...
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Ioannis K. Kapoulas, Antonios Hatziefremidis, A. K. Baldoukas, Evangelos S. Valamontes and J. C. Statharas
Various types of small drones constitute a modern threat for infrastructure and hardware, as well as for humans; thus, special-purpose radar has been developed in the last years in order to identify such drones. When studying the radar signatures, we obs...
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Koki Hamajima, Kei Yasukawa, Masazumi Ueba, Hisayoshi Kanou, Munehiro Matsui, Junichi Abe, Kiyohiko Itokawa and Fumihiro Yamashita
Among several usages of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), wireless relay systems for high altitudes using fixed-wing UAVs, or high-altitude platform stations (HAPS), are some of the most promising applications. To realize the systems by making the most of ...
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Magdalena Peciak, Wojciech Skarka, Krzysztof Mateja and Maik Gude
A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) is a type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that allows for flight in harsh weather for surveillance and access to remote areas. VTOL can be performed without a runway. As such, VOTL UAVs are used in areas where ther...
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Tong Lin, Mingying Huo, Naiming Qi, Jianfeng Wang, Tianchen Wang, Haopeng Gu and Yiming Zhang
Electroaerodynamic unmanned aerial vehicles (EAD-UAVs) are innovative UAVs that use high-voltage asymmetric electrodes to ionize air molecules and Coulomb force to push these ions to produce thrust. Unlike fixed-wing and rotor UAVs, EAD-UAVs contain no m...
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Dan Xu, Yunxiao Guo, Zhongyi Yu, Zhenfeng Wang, Rongze Lan, Runhao Zhao, Xinjia Xie and Han Long
Flocking for fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an extremely complex challenge due to fixed-wing UAV?s control problem and the system?s coordinate difficulty. Recently, flocking approaches based on reinforcement learning have attracted attenti...
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Abdulghani Mohamed, Matthew Marino, Simon Watkins, Justin Jaworski and Anya Jones
There is a growing desire to operate Uncrewed Air Vehicles (UAVs) in urban environments for parcel delivery, and passenger-carrying air taxis for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). The turbulent flows and gusts around buildings and other urban infrastructure c...
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