Innovations and developments in unmanned aerial vehicles / edited by Mohamed Arezki Mellal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface.

Chapter 1: Types of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Chapter 2: Introduction to Firefighter Drones.

Chapter 3: Evolution of UAV Technology.

Chapter 4: Evolution of UAV Technology From Early Innovations to Future Horizons.

Chapter 5: Autonomous UAV Swarms.

Chapter 6: Aerodynamics Principles and Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Chapter 7: Design and Aerodynamics.

Chapter 8: Emerging Trends in Usage of Drone Technology.

Chapter 9: Case Study: Transforming Agriculture With UAV Technology.

Chapter 10: Advanced Image Processing Techniques for Precision Agriculture.

Chapter 11: Designs of Sound Absorbers for Noise Reduction of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Chapter 12: Energy Management and Battery Technologies.

Chapter 13: Improving UAV Fault Detection Through a Hybrid CNN‑LSTM‑GRU Framework for Sensor Data Analysis.

Chapter 14: Quadrotor Control Systems.

Chapter 15: Rotor‑Wing Interaction in Urban Air Mobility Tiltrotors.

Chapter 16: The Effects of Design Parameters on Flight Safety in Case of Engine Failure in Air Taxis.

Chapter 17: Collaborative Decision‑Making for Optimal Control of a Heterogeneous UAV Swarm for Different Missions.

Chapter 18: Development of a Model for the Analysis of Passively Redundant Aircraft Subsystems Taking Into Account Tolerances.

Compilation of References.

About the Contributors.

Index.

This book presents recent innovations and developments in unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones. It covers UAV design, propulsion, autonomy, applications, and the advantages and disadvantages of different UAV types across practical settings.

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