Unmanned Aerial Systems
Theoretical Foundation and Applications
- 1st Edition - January 26, 2021
- Latest edition
- Editors: Anis Koubaa, Ahmad Taher Azar
- Language: English
Unmanned Aerial Systems: Theoretical Foundation and Applications presents some of the latest innovative approaches to drones from the point-of-view of dynamic modeling, system an… Read more
Unmanned Aerial Systems: Theoretical Foundation and Applications presents some of the latest innovative approaches to drones from the point-of-view of dynamic modeling, system analysis, optimization, control, communications, 3D-mapping, search and rescue, surveillance, farmland and construction monitoring, and more. With the emergence of low-cost UAS, a vast array of research works in academia and products in the industrial sectors have evolved. The book covers the safe operation of UAS, including, but not limited to, fundamental design, mission and path planning, control theory, computer vision, artificial intelligence, applications requirements, and more.
This book provides a unique reference of the state-of-the-art research and development of unmanned aerial systems, making it an essential resource for researchers, instructors and practitioners.
- Covers some of the most innovative approaches to drones
- Provides the latest state-of-the-art research and development surrounding unmanned aerial systems
- Presents a comprehensive reference on unmanned aerial systems, with a focus on cutting-edge technologies and recent research trends in the area
Mathematicians, Engineering Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Physics
2. UAS Control systems
3. Hybrid control of UAS
4. Obstacle and collision avoidance of UAS
5. UAV onboard data storage, transmission and retrieval
6. Kalman and Particle filtering and other advanced techniques for motion sensor data fusion
7. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
8. Single/multiple IMU–Vision-based navigation and orientation
9. Autopilots and navigation: standard and advanced solutions for navigation integrity
10. Integration of UAS into the Internet
11. IoT applications using UAS
12. Safety issues of UAS
13. Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) localization
14. Security threats of UAS
15. UAS public deployment challenges
16. UAS for cloud robotics
17. Deep neural networks (DNN) for field aerial robot perception (e.g., object detection, or semantic classification for navigation)
18. Recurrent networks for state estimation and dynamic identification of aerial vehicles
19. Deep-reinforcement learning for aerial robots (discrete-, or continuous-control) in dynamic environments
20. Learning-based aerial manipulation in cluttered environments
21. Decision making or task planning using machine learning for field aerial robots
22. Long-term ecological monitoring based on UAVs
23. Ecological Integrity parameters mapping
24. Rapid risk and disturbance assessment using drones
25. Ecosystem structure and processes assessment by using UAVs
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: January 26, 2021
- Language: English
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Ahmad Taher Azar
Prof. Ahmad Azar is a full Professor at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Kingdom Saudi Arabia. He is the leader of Automated Systems and Computing Lab (ASCL), Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia.
Prof. Azar is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI), Inderscience Publishers, Olney, UK. He is also the Editor in Chief of International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET) and International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) published by IGI Global, USA. From 2013 to 2017, Prof. Azar was an associate editor of ISA Transactions, Elsevier.
He is currently an editor for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Springer's Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences.
Prof. Azar specializes in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, machine learning, control theory and applications, computational intelligence, reinforcement learning, and dynamic system modeling. He has published or co-published over 550 research papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings in prestigious peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Ahmad Azar has received several awards, including the Benha University Prize for Scientific Excellence (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) and the Benha University Highest Citation Award (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018).
In June 2018, he was awarded the Egyptian State Encouragement Award in Engineering Sciences by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. In August 2018, he was elected as a senior member of the International Rough Set Society (IRSS).
Prof. Azar was named one of the top computer scientists in Saudi Arabia by Research.com since December 2019.
He was awarded the Egyptian President's Distinguished Egyptian Order of the First Class in February 2020.
In October 2020, Prof. Azar received Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award in Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics.
From October 2020 to September 2023, Prof. Azar was recognized as a Distinguished researcher at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
In November 2020, October 2021, October 2022, October 2023, September 2024, and September 2025 Prof. Azar was named one of the top 2% of scientists in the world in Artificial Intelligence by Stanford University, based on single-year impact and career-long impact. These rankings were published by Stanford University in the PLOS journal and were based on the SCOPUS database.
Prof. Ahmad Azar has been recognized as one of the top ten researchers at Prince Sultan University, based on his Scopus H-index. He has also received a university award for being among his top publication of research.
Prof. Azar has received Prince Sultan University’s Research Excellence Award. He is also the recipient of the university’s Highest Impact Researcher Award, based on his H-index. Additionally, he has earned a PSU research award for having publications ranked among the top five by impact factor.
Prof. Ahmad Azar is the Vice Chair of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee of Control Design, Vice chair of IFAC Technical committee 4.3 Robotics, Vice chair of IFAC Technical committee 9.3 “Control for Smart Cities”. He is a technical Committee Member of Data Mining and Big Data Analytics of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), IFAC Technical committee Member TC 2.2. Linear Control Systems, IFAC Technical committee Member TC 1.2. Adaptive and Learning Systems.