... aerial vehicles (UAV) simulation environment and its utility demonstrated through simulation for several autonomous flight scenarios including GPS abnormal operation. Findings – The proposed simplified GPS model achieves desirable levels of accuracy and realism for all components for the purpose...

...Ho‐Young Kim; Jun‐Seong Lee; Jae‐Hung Han Purpose The purpose of this paper is to perform an indoor autonomous flight of ornithopter using a novel motion capture system. Design/methodology/approach The ornithopter platform has no on‐board sensors and processors for state estimation or feedback...