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Robotic Aircraft

In recent years, the utilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has increased significantly, as these vehicles provide cost-effective and safe alternatives to manned flights in several civil and military applications. These robotic aircraft can employ a spread of sensors, also as multisensory data fusion algorithms, to supply autonomy to the platform within the accomplishment of mission- and safety-critical tasks. UAVs are characterized by higher manoeuvr ability, reduced cost, longer endurance and fewer risk to human life compared to manned systems. One among the foremost important concepts is to use a multi-sensor integrated system to deal with the wants of long/medium range navigation and landing. This will reduce cost, weight/volume and support requirements and, with the acceptable sensors and integration architecture, give increased accuracy and integrity of the general system. The simplest candidates for such integration are indeed satellite navigation receivers and inertial sensors. In recent years, computer vision and Vision-Based Navigation (VBN) systems have began to be applied to UAVs.

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