Autonomous Control Systems and Vehicles Intelligent Unmanned Systems [Hardcover]

The International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems 2011 was organized by the International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems and locally by the Center for Bio-Micro Robotics Research at Chiba University, Japan. The event was the 7th conference continuing from previous conferences held in Seoul, Korea (2005, 2006), Bali, Indonesia (2007), Nanjing, China (2008), Jeju, Korea (2009), and Bali, Indonesia (2010). ICIUS 2011 focused on both theory and application, primarily covering the topics of robotics, autonomous vehicles, intelligent unmanned technologies, and biomimetics. We invited seven keynote speakers who dealt with related state-of-the-art technologies including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and micro air vehicles (MAVs), flapping wings (FWs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), underwater vehicles (UVs), bio-inspired robotics, advanced control, and intelligent systems, among others. This book is a collection of excellent papers that were updated after presentation at ICIUS2011. All papers that form the chapters of this book were reviewed and revised from the perspective of advanced relevant technologies in the field. The aim of this book is to stimulate interactions among researchers active in the areas pertinent to intelligent unmanned systems.

This book covers both the theory and application of autonomous control in robotics, autonomous vehicles, intelligent unmanned technologies and biomimetics. The text is enriched with some 300 useful and informative illustrations of unmanned vehicles.Flight Demonstrations of Fault Tolerant Flight Control using Small UAVs.- Unmanned Aerial and Ground Vehicle Teams: Recent Work and Open Problems.- Cognitive Developmental Robotics  from physical interaction to social one .- Towards a Unified Framework for UAS Autonomy and Technology Readiness Assessment (ATRA).- Control Scheme for Automatic Take off and Landing of Small Electric Helicopter.- Evaluation of an Easy Operation System for Unmannl³E