Autonomous Control Systems and Vehicles

Kenzo NONAMI, Vice President, Prof., Ph.D Department of Mechanical Engineering Division of Artificial Systems Science Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University Muljowidodo Kartidjo, Prof., Ph.D Center for Unmanned System Studies Institute of Technology Bandung Bandung, Indonesia Kwang Joon Yoon, Prof., Ph.D Department of Aerospace Information Engineering Konkuk University Seoul, South Korea Agus Budiyono,  Prof., Ph.D Department of Aerospace Information Engineering Konkuk University Seoul, South Korea Prof. Nonami has published the following title from Springer Japan in 2010. 'Autonomous Flying Robots' http://www.springer.com/978-4-431-53855-4 The book has captured the public’s attention because his robots have actually been used for the investigation of the Tohoku disaster in 2011. (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxDhoGkA4n8)

Flight Demonstrations of Fault Tolerant Flight Control using Small UAVs.- Unmanned Aerial and Ground Vehicle Teams: Recent Work and Open Problems.- Cognitive Developmental Robotics – from physical interaction to social one –.- Towards a Unified Framework for UAS　Autonomy and Technology Readiness Assessment (ATRA).- Control Scheme for Automatic Take off and Landing of Small Electric Helicopter.- Evaluation of an Easy Operation System for Unmanned Helicopter.- Control of Ducted Fan Flying Object Using Thrust Vectoring.- Circular Formation Control of Multiple Quad-Rotor Aerial Vehicles.- Decentralised Formation Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Virtual Leaders.- Aerodynamics and Flight Stability of Bio-inspired Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles.- Development and Operational Experiences of UAVs for Scientific Research in Antarctica.- Circularly Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar onboard Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.- Modeling and Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots – from kinematics to dynamics with slipping and skidding.- Consideration of Mounted Position of Grousers on Flexible Wheel for Lunar Exploration Rovers to Traverse Loose Soil.- Optimal Impedance Control with TSK-type FLC for Hard Shaking Reduction on Hydraulically Driven Hexapod Robot.- LRF Assisted Autonomous Walking in Rough Terrain for Hexapod Robot COMET-IV.- Walking Directional Control of Six-legged Robot by Time-varying Feedback System.- Design and Operation Analysis of Hybrid AUV.- Ultrasound Energy Transmission for WaFLES-Support Intra-abdominal Micro Robots.- Simulation of Supercavitating Flow Accelerated by Shock.- Dynamics of Vortices shed from an Elastic Heaving Thin Film by Fluid