This paper reviews aspects of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) autonomy as suggested by
the Autonomous Control Logic chart of the US DoD UAV autonomy roadmap; levels of …

I. Introduction nmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) are becoming an integral part of future military
forces. It is envisioned that future UAVs will perform autonomously complex tasks such as …

In the past several years there has been a lot of interest in the design of efficient
autonomous intelligent controllers for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). This is a very …

Smart Autonomous Aircraft: Flight Control and Planning for UAV introduces the advanced
methods of flight control, planning, situation awareness, and decision making. This book is …

Autonomous mission control, unlike automatic mission control which is generally pre-
programmed to execute an intended mission, is guided by the philosophy of carrying out a …

Two complete system architectures for a guidance, navigation and control solution of small
UAVs is presented. These systems (developed at the University of California Santa Cruz and …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the performance of several
different UAV trajectory tracking algorithms in normal and abnormal flight conditions to …

The purpose of this project is to modify the autopilot of an existing aerial platform to achieve
the performances required by military applications. The existing autopilot is based on gain …

Intelligent Autonomy of UAVs: Advanced Missions and Future Use provides an approach to
the formulation of the fundamental task typical to any mission and provides guidelines of …

The implementation of the autonomy is an essential step inside the roadmap for the
development of UAV systems. This capability would allow performing some of mission …