Intelligent Autonomy of UAVs: Advanced Missions and Future Use (Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series)

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 how this task can be solved by different generic robotic problems. As such, this book aims to provide a systems engineering approach to UAV projects, discovering the real problems that need to be resolved independently of the application.

After an introduction to the rapidly evolving field of aerial robotics, the book presents topics such as autonomy, mission analysis, human-UAV teams, homogeneous and heterogeneous UAV teams, and finally, UAV-UGV teams. It then covers generic robotic problems such as orienteering and coverage. The book next introduces deployment, patrolling, and foraging, while the last part of the book tackles an important application: aerial search, tracking, and surveillance.

This book is meant for both scientists and practitioners. For practitioners, it presents existing solutions that are categorized according to various missions: surveillance and reconnaissance, 3D mapping, urban monitoring, precision agriculture, forestry, disaster assessment and monitoring, security, industrial plant inspection, etc.

For scientists, it provides an overview of generic robotic problems such as coverage and orienteering; deployment, patrolling and foraging; search, tracking, and surveillance. The design and analysis of algorithms raise a unique combination of questions from many fields, including robotics, operational research, control theory, and computer science.

《智能無人機的自主性：先進任務與未來應用》提供了一種對任何任務典型的基本任務制定方法的方法，並提供了如何通過不同的通用機器人問題來解決這個任務的指南。因此，本書旨在提供一種系統工程方法來處理無人機項目，發現需要獨立解決的真正問題，而不論應用是什麼。

在介紹了快速發展的空中機器人領域之後，本書介紹了自主性、任務分析、人-無人機團隊、同質和異質無人機團隊，最後是無人機-無人地面車團隊。然後，它涵蓋了通用的機器人問題，如定向和覆蓋。本書接下來介紹了部署、巡邏和覓食，最後一部分涉及一個重要的應用：空中搜索、追蹤和監視。

本書旨在面向科學家和從業人員。對於從業人員，它提供了按照各種任務進行分類的現有解決方案：監視和偵察、3D地圖製作、城市監測、精確農業、林業、災害評估和監測、安全、工業廠房檢查等。

對於科學家來說，它提供了通用機器人問題的概述，如覆蓋和定向；部署、巡邏和覓食；搜索、追蹤和監視。算法的設計和分析引發了許多領域的獨特組合問題，包括機器人學、運營研究、控制理論和計算機科學。