Unnamed Aerial Vehicle

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are aircraft capable of flying without the need of a human pilot on board to control them. They can be remotely controlled, fly autonomously based on pre-programmed flight plans through the use of complex control systems. In addition, they can be controlled by an on-board station that performs all the decision-making automatically or by operators that with the use of a radio control can perform actions manually such as take-off and landing. The autonomy is related to the control algorithms that these vehicles have to respond satisfactorily when encountering unexpected or random events during their flight missions.

The great popularity they have had, makes them one of the most recent development trends and they have been a very active research area. The application of this type of vehicle is increasingly greater in tasks that involve some type of difficulty or risk for conventional vehicles manned by people, such as: fire detection, identification of oil slicks in the sea, traffic monitoring, the inspection of power lines, etc.

There is a general interest in the autonomous control of unmanned aerial vehicles, since in recent years many projects related to this topic have been developed. The tracking of objects with UAVs has created great interest among the scientific community in recent years, especially for its applications such as the inspection of objects (recording) that move, without the need to control the UAV from a remote station. For this reason it is important to develop strategies that allow tracking people (tracking) in outdoor environments