Special Issue "Quadrotor UAV with Advanced Applications"

A special issue of Inventions (ISSN 2411-5134). This special issue belongs to the section "Inventions and innovation in Advanced Manufacturing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 2921

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Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
Interests: automatic control; mechatronics; biomedical engineering
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Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, new applications of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have constituted one of the most interesting fields of research due to its vertical take-off and landing capabilities, the simplicity of their construction, and the important technological advances in control, sensing, communication, and energy storage. The unique capabilities of the UAV, including high maneuverability, small size, and being easy to control, enable more and more applications. The major advantage of such vehicles over traditional helicopters is its fixed rotor propulsion mode. In general, its four rotors are aligned such that two rotors on opposite ends rotate in the same direction and the other two in the opposite direction. It is expected that next generation UAVs will be more autonomous, with better intelligence, exquisite functions and advanced performance in every aspect, all enabled by artificial intelligence (AI), advanced sensing devices, modern guidance and control systems, and design techniques.

Topics

From a methodological perspective, we are interested in works that go beyond traditional approaches. The topics encapsulate, but are not limited to, the following topics:

(1)   Flight control technique
(2)   Autonomous UAV
(3)   Applications in transportation, security, rescue, surveillance, photography, communication gateway, etc. 
(4)   Coordinated formation flight
(5)   Sensor and actuator
(6)   Vision system
(7)   New configuration

Prof. Dr. Chun-Liang Lin
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Quadrotor
  • UAV
  • Handling
  • Safety
  • Control
  • Guidance and Navigation

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Design of Small Unmanned Surface Vehicle with Autonomous Navigation System
Inventions 2021, 6(4), 91; https://doi.org/10.3390/inventions6040091 - 22 Nov 2021
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Maintaining ecosystems is one of the current leading public concerns. Some of the pressing problems that threaten water resources are pollution of water bodies with floating debris, illegal extraction of water resources, wear and tear of underwater communications. Therefore, the creation of special [...] Read more.
Maintaining ecosystems is one of the current leading public concerns. Some of the pressing problems that threaten water resources are pollution of water bodies with floating debris, illegal extraction of water resources, wear and tear of underwater communications. Therefore, the creation of special technical solutions is urgent. This paper reports a model-based design of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV), purposed to control and maintain the oxygen level and parameters such as acidity and the water temperature in rivers, lakes, inland waterways, and coastal waters. The developed USV navigation autopilot is described as a system with two inputs and one output. The autopilot selected is an adaptive controller based on the concept of proportional, integral, and derivative (PID). The autopilot is implemented on the STM32 microcontroller and allows precisely maintaining a given course, adjusting the speed and angle of rotation during wind drift and other influences. The new technique for sensor calibration and data acquisition is described. Simulation results are given, showing the performance of the autopilot algorithm in response to variations in the environment. The numerical experiments of the model have presented the result of confirming the sufficient correspondence between prototype characteristics and simulation results. Finally, thorough field trials were performed to verify the reliability and precision of the proposed solutions. The developed unmanned surface vehicle can be used for environmental monitoring (water sampling, hydrography, patrolling water areas). In turn, the solutions obtained will be suitable for the design of other USV of different sizes. Full article
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