2023 December - 26 articles
With the continuous expansion of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, the threat of icing on UAV flights has garnered increased attention. Understanding the icing principles and developing anti-icing technologies for unmanned aircraft is a cru...
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In this paper, we address aerial tracking tasks by designing multi-phase aware networks to obtain rich long-range dependencies. For aerial tracking tasks, the existing methods are prone to tracking drift in scenarios with high demand for multi-layer...
This study focuses on addressing the tracking control problem for a coaxial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) without any prior knowledge of its dynamic model. To overcome the limitations of model-based control, a model-free approach based on terminal sl...
Uneven-aged mixed forests have been recognized as important contributors to biodiversity conservation, ecological stability, carbon sequestration, the provisioning of ecosystem services, and sustainable timber production. Recently, numerous studies h...
Navigating multiple drones autonomously in complex and unpredictable environments, such as forests, poses a significant challenge typically addressed by wireless communication for coordination. However, this approach falls short in situations with li...
In this paper, we examine potential methods for autonomously tracking and landing multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a complex yet essential problem. Autonomous tracking and landing control technology utilizes visual navigation, relying sol...
Ducted UAVs have attracted much attention because the duct structure can reduce the propeller tip vortices and thus increase the effective lift area of the lower propeller. This paper investigates the effects of parameters on the aerodynamic characte...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found expanding utilization in smart agriculture. Path loss (PL) is of significant importance in the link budget of UAV-aided air-to-ground (A2G) communications. This paper proposes a machine-learning-based PL mod...
This paper presents a fixed-time extended state observer-based adaptive sliding mode controller evaluated in a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle subject to severe turbulent wind while executing a desired trajectory. Since both the state and model of...
Recently, deep learning methods and multisensory fusion have been applied to address odometry challenges in unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). In this paper, we propose an end-to-end visual-lidar-inertial odometry framework to enhance the accuracy of p...
Light small-sized, multi-rotor UAVs, with their notable advantages of portability, intelligence, and low cost, occupy a significant share in the civilian UAV market. To further reduce the full lifecycle cost of products, shorten development cycles, a...
With the rapid advancement of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and the Internet of Things (IoTs), UAV-assisted IoTs has become integral in areas such as wildlife monitoring, disaster surveillance, and search and rescue operations. However, recent stud...
Recent studies have been focusing on unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) to inspect safety issues in the construction industry. A UAS can monitor a broad range in real time and identify unsafe situations and objects at the jobsite. The related studies m...
Understanding the atmospheric conditions in remote areas contributes to assessing local weather phenomena. Obtaining vertical profiles of the atmosphere in isolated locations can introduce significant challenges for the deployment and maintenance of...
Research on developing a smart security system is based on Artificial Intelligence with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to detect and monitor alert situations, such as fire accidents and theft/intruders in the building or factory, which is based on...
We propose a novel 6D pose estimation approach tailored for auto-landing fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This method facilitates the simultaneous tracking of both position and attitude using a ground-based vision system, regardless of the...
This study focuses on the path-planning problem of rescue UAVs with regional detection priority. Initially, we propose a mixed-integer programming model that integrates coverage path planning (CPP) and the hierarchical traveling salesman problem (HTS...
Achieving neighbor discovery for a directional flying ad hoc network (FANET) with multiple channels poses challenges for media access control (MAC) protocol design, as it requires simultaneous main lobe and channel rendezvous while dealing with the h...
End-to-end deep neural network (DNN)-based motion planners have shown great potential in high-speed autonomous UAV flight. Yet, most existing methods only employ a single high-capacity DNN, which typically lacks generalization ability and suffers fro...
The Charleston Estuarine System Stock (CESS) of Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops erebennus) exhibit long-term site fidelity to the Charleston Harbor, and the Ashley, Cooper, and Wando Rivers in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. In the Co...
In this study, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted wireless-powered mobile edge computing (WP-MEC) system is proposed, where a single-antenna unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted cloudlet provides offloading opportunities to K user e...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), a subset of aerial robots, play crucial roles in various domains, such as disaster management, agriculture, and healthcare. Their application proves invaluable in situations where human intervention poses risks or inv...
The implementation of distributed propulsion and boundary layer ingestion for unmanned aerial vehicles represents various challenges for the design of embedded ducts in blended wing body configurations. This work explores the conceptual design and ev...
Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have emerged as transformative tools in the healthcare sector, offering the potential to revolutionize medical logistics, emergency response, and patient care. This scoping review provides a...
The operation of unmanned aircraft systems in shared airspace can serve as an accelerator for the global economy and a sensitive addition to the existing mix of transportation modes. For these reasons, concepts of Unmanned Traffic Management have bee...
