Unmanned Aerial Systems: Theoretical Foundation and Applications (Advances in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Robotics (ANDC)) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Anis Koubaa is a Professor in Computer Science, Advisor to the Rector, and Leader of the Robotics and Internet of Things Research Lab, in Prince Sultan University. He is also R&D Consultant at Gaitech Robotics in China and Senior Researcher in CISTER/INESC TEC and ISEP-IPP, Porto, Portugal. He has been the Chair of the ACM Chapter in Saudi Arabia since 2014. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in UK. He received several distinctions and awards including the Rector Research Award in 2010 at Al-Imam Mohamed bin Saud University, and the Rector Teaching Award in 2016 at Prince Sultan University. He is the Editor in Chief of the Robotics Software Engineering topic of the International Journal of Advanced Robotics Systems, Associate Editor in the Cyber-Physical Journal (Taylor & Francis). He is also the authors of six books with Springer on robots, sensor networks and Robot Operating Systems (ROS). He has been also actively participating in program committees of several international conferences including, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, International Conference on Robotics Computing, European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems. He is the author of more than 200 journal and conference publications, and one patent. He received several research grants as principal investigator, and he established research collaboration between Prince Sultan University and Gaitech Robotics for the development of robots and drones, and ROS.

Ahmad Azar is a Research Associate Professor at the Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Kingdom Saudi Arabia. He is also an associate professor at the Faculty of Computers and Artificial intelligence, in Benha University, Egypt. He is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA), International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET), and International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI), among others. He is currently Associate Editor of ISA Transactions, Elsevier, and the IEEE systems journal. Dr. Azar works in the areas of control theory & applications, process control, chaos control and synchronization, nonlinear control, renewable energy, computational intelligence.

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Unmanned Aerial Systems: Theoretical Foundation and Applications presents some of the latest innovative approaches to drones from a point of view of dynamic modeling, system analysis, optimization, control, communications, 3D-mapping, search and rescue, surveillance, farmland and construction monitoring, among others.

With the emergence of low-cost UAS, a vast array of research works in academia and products in the industrial sectors have evolved; there are still several challenges that need to be addressed for this technology to become mature. Ensuring the safe operation of UAS involves many research challenges spanning over multiple disciplines including but not limited to the fundamental design, mission and path planning, control theory, computer vision, artificial intelligence, applications requirements, etc.

Given the diversity of UAS, the development of systematic tools and methods for the analysis, control and optimization of such systems is a challenging task that encompasses a broad set of problems requiring an integrated set of skills across various disciplines. This book provides a unique reference of the state-of-the-art research and development of unmanned aerial systems to be an essential resource from researchers, instructors and practitioners.