Meet the editors

Mahmut Reyhanoglu is presently the Chair and Glaxo Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, North Carolina, USA. His extensive research makes use of advanced mathematical techniques and models that arise from fundamental physical principles. His major research interests are in the areas of nonlinear dynamical systems and control theory, with particular emphasis on applications to mechatron-

ics and aerospace systems. He has authored/co-authored several book chapters and over 140 peer-reviewed journal articles/proceedings papers. He served on the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Editorial Board and on the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board as an Associate Editor. He also served as international program committee member for several conferences and as a member of AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technical Committee.

Geert De Cubber is the team leader of the Robotics & Autonomous Systems Unit of the Department of Mechanics of the Belgian Royal Military Academy. He is also a senior researcher at this institute with a research focus on developing robotic solutions for solving security challenges like crisis management, the fight against crime and terrorism, and border security. He received his diploma in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

and his Doctoral Degree in Engineering in 2010 from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Belgian Royal Military Academy. He is and was the coordinator of multiple European and national research projects, like FP7-ICARUS (on the development of search and rescue robots) and H2020-SafeShore (on the development of a threat detection system).

Contents

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 29**

**Chapter 4 63**

**Chapter 5 79**

Robotic Search and Rescue through In-Pipe Movement

Decentralised Scalable Search for a Hazardous Source in

Vision-Based Autonomous Control Schemes for Quadrotor

*by Alexander Ferrein, Ingrid Scholl,Tobias Neumann, Kai Krückel* 

Advanced UAVs Nonlinear Control Systems and Applications *by Abdulkader Joukhadar, Mohammad Alchehabi and Adnan Jejeh*

A System for Continuous Underground Site Mapping

*by Archit Krishna Kamath, Vibhu Kumar Tripathi and Laxmidhar Behera*

*by Atsushi Kakogawa and Shugen Ma*

*by Branko Ristic and Christopher Gilliam*

Turbulent Conditions

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

and Exploration

*and Stefan Schiffer*
