

I am pleased to present you with this 1st edition of this book. This book was written with the intention to add to and benefit this field of study. It is encouraging that more literature is now available in this discipline. This new technology been the case across various disciplines such as mapping, remote sensing, civil engineering, geology, geomorphology, mili-tary engineering, land planning, and communications.


Unmanned aerial vehicles were once the stuff of rumor and legend, identified as new and Mysterious robots in the sky.Īpart from military applications there are many jobs to be performed monitoring and rescue, the unmanned aerial vehicles are used for photo-grammetry tasks. The path planner has been tested to-gether with the UAV platform in an urban environment used for UAV experimentation. It is based on the use of probabilistic roadmaps.
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We focus on the path planner integrated with the platform which can generate collision free paths au-tonomously during such missions. In this article, we describe a fully operational UAV platform which can achieve such mis-sions autonomously. Imagine a mission scenario where a UAV is supplied with a D model of a region containing buildings and road structures and is instructed to fly to an arbitrary number of building structures and collect video streams of each of the building's respective facades. For both military and civil applications, there is a desire to develop more sophisticated UAV platforms where the emphasis is placed on development of intelligent capabil-ities. The emerging area of intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research has shown rapid development in recent years and offers a great number of research challenges for artificial intelligence.
