Epilogue
This book comes to you as a result of the concerted effort of a team of experts in the area of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and sense and avoid (SAA), specifically. They were led and organised by the Editor, who himself had the opportunity and privilege to work in a series of large-scale (multi-million) projects in this area in the UK and EU. He is also a leading authority and one of the pioneers of the autonomous learning and dynamically evolving/adaptive intelligent systems. The other contributors include:
- George Limnaios, Nikos Tsourveloudis, and Kimon Valavanis (Technical University of Crete, Greece and University of Denver, CO, USA), the authors of the first chapter which introduces the topic including its historical prospective.
- Andrew Zeitlin (MITRE, USA), the author of the second chapter which focuses on performance tradeoffs and the development of standards.
- Pablo Royo, Eduard Santamaria, Juan Manuel Lema, Enric Pastor, and Cristina Barrado (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain), the authors of the third chapter which describes the integration of SAA capabilities into a UAS distributed architecture for civil applications; this chapter is very valuable, because it provides a systems point of view and puts SAA into the context of UAS as a whole which is not the main topic of this book.
- Xavier Prats, Jorge Ramirez, Luis Delgado, and Pablo Royo (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) who authored Chapter , on regulations and requirements. This chapter ...
