Kimon P. Valavanis & Paul Oh 
Unmanned Aircraft Systems [PDF ebook] 
International Symposium On Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, UAV’08

Guest Editorial for the Special Volume On Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).- Development of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Piloting System with Integrated Motion Cueing for Training and Pilot Evaluation.- Networking Issues for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems.- UAVs Integration in the SWIM Based Architecture for ATM.- A Survey of UAS Technologies for Command, Control, and Communication (C3).- Unmanned Aircraft Flights and Research at the United States Air Force Academy.- Real-Time Participant Feedback from the Symposium for Civilian Applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems.- Computer Vision Onboard UAVs for Civilian Tasks.- Vision-Based Odometry and SLAM for Medium and High Altitude Flying UAVs.- Real-time Implementation and Validation of a New Hierarchical Path Planning Scheme of UAVs via Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation.- Comparison of RBF and SHL Neural Network Based Adaptive Control.- Small Helicopter Control Design Based on Model Reduction and Decoupling.- Fuzzy Logic Based Approach to Design of Flight Control and Navigation Tasks for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.- From the Test Benches to the First Prototype of the mu Fly Micro Helicopter.- Modeling and Global Control of the Longitudinal Dynamics of a Coaxial Convertible Mini-UAV in Hover Mode.- Subsonic Tests of a Flush Air Data Sensing System Applied to a Fixed-Wing Micro Air Vehicle.- Testing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Missions in a Scaled Environment.- A Framework for Simulation and Testing of UAVs in Cooperative Scenarios.- Distributed Simulation and Middleware for Networked UAS.- Design and Hardware-in-the-Loop Integration of a UAV Microavionics System in a Manned–Unmanned Joint Airspace Flight Network Simulator.- A Hardware Platform for Research in Helicopter UAV Control.- A Development of Unmanned Helicopters for Industrial Applications.- The Implementation of an Autonomous Helicopter Testbed.- Modeling and Real-Time Stabilization of an Aircraft Having Eight Rotors.- An Overview of the “Volcan Project”: An UAS for Exploration of Volcanic Environments.- FPGA Implementation of Genetic Algorithm for UAV Real-Time Path Planning.- Concepts and Validation of a Small-Scale Rotorcraft Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) Controller in a Unique Simulation Environment.