TY - CHAP
T1 - Flying robots
AU - Leutenegger, Stefan
AU - Hürzeler, Christoph
AU - Stowers, Amanda K.
AU - Alexis, Kostas
AU - Achtelik, Markus W.
AU - Lentink, David
AU - Oh, Paul Y.
AU - Siegwart, Roland
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS s) have drawn increasing attention recently, owing to advancements in related research, technology, and applications. While having been deployed successfully in military scenarios for decades, civil use cases have lately been tackled by the robotics research community. This chapter overviews the core elements of this highly interdisciplinary field; the reader is guided through the design process of aerial robots for various applications starting with a qualitative characterization of different types of UAS. Design and modeling are closely related, forming a typically iterative process of drafting and analyzing the related properties. Therefore, we overview aerodynamics and dynamics, as well as their application to fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and flapping-wing UAS, including related analytical tools and practical guidelines. Respecting use-case-specific requirements and core autonomous robot demands, we finally provide guidelines to related system integration challenges.
AB - Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS s) have drawn increasing attention recently, owing to advancements in related research, technology, and applications. While having been deployed successfully in military scenarios for decades, civil use cases have lately been tackled by the robotics research community. This chapter overviews the core elements of this highly interdisciplinary field; the reader is guided through the design process of aerial robots for various applications starting with a qualitative characterization of different types of UAS. Design and modeling are closely related, forming a typically iterative process of drafting and analyzing the related properties. Therefore, we overview aerodynamics and dynamics, as well as their application to fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and flapping-wing UAS, including related analytical tools and practical guidelines. Respecting use-case-specific requirements and core autonomous robot demands, we finally provide guidelines to related system integration challenges.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85034847974&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-32552-1_26
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-32552-1_26
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85034847974
SN - 9783319325507
SP - 623
EP - 669
BT - Springer Handbook of Robotics
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -