...Shiqi Gong; Yu Mei; Haibin Duan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel formation controller with fixed and switching topologies, using pigeon-inspired optimization ( PIO ) with Cauchy disturbance for unmanned aerial vehicle ( UAV ) parameter tuning. Design/methodology/approach...

... Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Active Camber FishBAC Within the entrance of the second century in aircraft design, the prominent issues are increasing the efficiency of designs by increasing the performance and aerodynamical efficiency. Issues such as reducing fuel consumption (Sarlioglu...

...Tamer Savas; Oznur Usanmaz; Ozlem Sahin; Ertan Çınar; Murat Karaderili Purpose The study aims to design a new route model for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to integrate them into non-segregated airspace. Design/methodology/approach The proposed route model was assessed and validated through...

...Richard Hann; Tor Arne Johansen Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of icing on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at low Reynolds numbers and to highlight the differences to icing on manned aircraft at high Reynolds numbers. This paper follows existing research...

...Oznur Usanmaz; Murat Karaderili; Ozlem Sahin; Tamer Savaş Purpose Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are more affected by adverse wind conditions in especially landing. Therefore, they need to change the runway in use. In case of this change, to eliminate the uncertain maneuvers, there is a need...

... aerial vehicle (UAV) Recently, researchers conduct different approaches concerning independent navigation and flight planning problems on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs) (Ergezer and Leblebicioglu, 2013 ; Duan et al., 2013). For instance, gravitational search algorithm is enhanced...

...Jiaqi Jia; Haibin Duan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel target automatic recognition method for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which is based on backpropagation – artificial neural network (BP-ANN) algorithm, with the objective of optimizing the structure of backpropagation...