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9781402061134: Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: State of the Art and the Road to Autonomy
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ISBN 10 : 1402061137 ISBN 13 : 9781402061134
Editeur : Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2007

Synopsis

The past decade has seen tremendous interest in the production and refinement of unmanned aerial vehicles, both fixed-wing, such as airplanes and rotary-wing, such as helicopters and vertical takeoff and landing vehicles. This book provides a diversified survey of research and development on small and miniature unmanned aerial vehicles of both fixed and rotary wing designs. From historical background to proposed new applications, this is the most comprehensive reference yet.

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À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have seen unprecedented levels of growth in military and civilian application domains. Fixed-wing aircraft, heavier or lighter than air, rotary-wing (rotorcraft, helicopters), vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned vehicles are being increasingly used in military and civilian domains for surveillance, reconnaissance, mapping, cartography, border patrol, inspection, homeland security, search and rescue, fire detection, agricultural imaging, traffic monitoring, to name just a few application domains. When initially introduced during World War I, UAVs were criticized heavily as being unreliable and inaccurate, and only a handful of people recognized at that early stage their potential and (future) impact on cha- ing the battlefield. To nobody¿s surprise, about a century later, the total market for UAVs will reach within a few years more than $16 billion, with the US Depa- ment of Defense (DOD) being the champion in funding initiatives, - search and development, as well as procurement. Europe, as a continent, is a very distant second player, expected to spend about ¿2 billion in research and development, and procurement.

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Éditeur
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1402061137
ISBN 13 
9781402061134
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
543
Éditeur
Valavanis Kimon P.
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