K-State Salina Library

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Planes Without Pilots by Bill Siuru

ISBN: 9780788150067

Publication Date: 1997-07-01

Provides a broad overview of current UAV (unmanned air vehicles) research and the many ways this technology is being used in the development of a variety of applications: ³Smart² weapons, unmanned attack aircraft, atmosphere sampling, space probes, advanced aerial sensors, weather reporting . . . and much more. The author also describes how specific advances in microelectronics, robotics, and optics have made recent UAV breakthroughs possible. He also peculates on the direction of future UAV experimentation.

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Unmanned Aircraft Systems by David G. Casos

ISBN: 9781607411147

Publication Date: 2009-05-01

Congress has expressed a great deal of interest in using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) to surveil the United States' international land border. This book examines the strengths and limitations of deploying UASs along the borders and related issues for Congress.

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Airpower and Technology by David R. Mets

ISBN: 9780275993146

Publication Date: 2008-12-30

In a chronological treatment, emphasizing theory and doctrine, technology, tactics, and strategy. Mets also details both combat experience and intellectual processes, lethal and non-lethal, involved in the preparation of airpower. In addition to the narrative discussion, the work offers sidebars and feature sections that facilitate the understanding of key weapons systems and operational challenges. It also offers A Dozen-Book Sampler for Your Reading on Air and Space Theory and Doctrine. The work concludes with a brief look at information warfare and with some speculations about the future. Through this thorough consideration of the evolution of American airpower and technology, Mets provides, not only a map of the past, but a guide to future generations of airpower and its potential for keeping the United States strong and safe.

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Unmanned Aviation by Lawrence R. Newcome

ISBN: 9781563476440

Publication Date: 2004-08-01

In the 1990s, the author oversaw development of two of the Pentagon's most advanced UAVs. As he looked at the history of unmanned planes, he noticed that each time a conflict broke out, well-intentioned American engineers would get to work on the latest unmanned concepts all but blind to the work of those who came before them. In this book, Newcome chronicles the long history of unmanned aircraft in hopes of ending the cycle of duplicative efforts. If this brief history can help prevent such reinventions of the wheel within unmanned aviation endeavors in the future, then it will have served its purpose, Newcome writes. Newcome traces the family tree of unmanned aircraft all the way back to their roots as aerial torpedoes, which were the equivalent of today's cruise missiles. He discusses the work of leading aerospace pioneers whose efforts in the area of unmanned aviation have largely been ignored by history. The book chronicles the use of unmanned aircraft in times and places where you might not expect them, such as during the Cold War, in Vietnam, and in Israel.

 

 

 

 

 

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Safety and Reliability in Cooperating Unmanned Aerial Systemsby Nicolas Lechevin; Camille Alain Rabbath

ISBN: 9789812836991

Publication Date: 2010-01-01

This book provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the analysis and design of health management systems for cooperating unmanned aerial vehicles. Such systems rely upon monitoring and fault adaptation schemes. Motivation for their study comes from the fact that, despite the use of fault-tolerant control software and hardware embedded onboard air vehicles, overall fleet performance may still be degraded after the occurrence of anomalous events such as systems faults and failures. Cooperative health management (CHM) systems seek to provide adaptation to the presence of faults by capitalizing on the availability of interconnected computing, sensing and actuation resources. This monograph complements the proposed CHM concepts by means of case studies and application examples. It presents fundamental principles and results encompassing optimization, systems theory, information theory, dynamics, modeling and simulation. Written by pioneers in cooperative control, health management and fault-tolerant control for unmanned systems, this book is a unique source of information for designers, researchers and practitioners interested in the field.