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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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Christoforos S. Rekatsinas, Dimitris K. Dimitriou and Nikolaos A. Chrysochoidis
The present paper investigates the design process and the dimensioning of a tailless type-C composite sandwich unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The objective is to investigate an innovative aircraft configuration which exceeds the standard approach of ribs...
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Ali Aghazadeh Ardebili, Antonio Ficarella, Antonella Longo, Adem Khalil and Sabri Khalil
Autonomous aircraft are the key enablers of future urban services, such as postal and transportation systems. Digital twins (DTs) are promising cutting-edge technologies that can transform the future transport ecosystem into an autonomous and resilient s...
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Pappu Kumar Yadav, J. Alex Thomasson, Robert Hardin, Stephen W. Searcy, Ulisses Braga-Neto, Sorin C. Popescu, Roberto Rodriguez III, Daniel E. Martin, Juan Enciso, Karem Meza and Emma L. White
Plastic shopping bags are often discarded as litter and can be carried away from roadsides and become tangled on cotton plants in farm fields. This rubbish plastic can end up in the cotton at the gin if not removed before harvest. These bags may not only...
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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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Ying Hong Pheh, Shane Kyi Hla Win and Shaohui Foong
Even as human?robot interactions become increasingly common, conventional small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS), typically multicopters, can still be unsafe for deployment in an indoor environment in close proximity to humans without significant safety ...
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Carlo Giorgio Grlj, Nino Krznar and Marko Pranjic
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have advanced rapidly in the last two decades with the advances in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. It is crucial, however, to design better power supply technologies. In the last decade, lithium polymer and lith...
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Ioannis K. Kapoulas, J. C. Statharas, Antonios Hatziefremidis and A. K. Baldoukas
Provided results are intended to be used along with the airfoil selection procedure described in the author M. H. Sadraey?s textbook Design of Unmanned Aerial Systems. For more detailed information regarding the procedure, please refer to textbook Aircra...
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Federico Corraro, Gianluca Corraro, Giovanni Cuciniello and Luca Garbarino
Collision Detection and Avoidance is one of the critical technologies for fully allowing Unmanned Aerial Systems to fly in civil airspaces. Current methods evaluate only potential conflicts with other aircraft using specific parameters (e.g., time or dis...
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Siwat Suewatanakul, Alessandro Porcarelli, Adam Olsson, Henrik Grimler, Ariel Chiche, Raffaello Mariani and Göran Lindbergh
The manuscript presents the conceptual design phase of an unmanned aerial vehicle, with the objective of a systems approach towards the integration of a hydrogen fuel-cell system and Li-ion batteries into an aerodynamically efficient platform representat...
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