Drones, Volume 6, Issue 11

The use of drones for vegetation monitoring allows the acquisition of large amounts of high spatial resolution data in a simple and fast way. In this study, we evaluated the accuracy of vegetation cover estimation by drones in Mediterranean semi-arid...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are part of our daily lives with a number of applications in diverse fields. On many occasions, developing these applications can be an arduous or even impossible task for users with a limited knowledge of aerial robot...

The paper describes an original technique for the real-time monitoring of parameters and technical diagnostics of small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) units using neural network models with the proposed CompactNeuroUAV architecture. As input data, the...

Identifying and detecting the loading size of heavy-duty railway freight cars is crucial in modern railway freight transportation. Due to contactless and high-precision characteristics, light detection and ranging-assisted unmanned aerial vehicle ste...

The increasing use of geospatial information from satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been contributing to significant growth in the availability of instruments and methodologies for data acquisition and analysis. For better management...

Dyna-Q is a reinforcement learning method widely used in AGV path planning. However, in large complex dynamic environments, due to the sparse reward function of Dyna-Q and the large searching space, this method has the problems of low search efficien...

In this paper, a mathematical model and solution for performing the inventory tasks of a multi-user, mixed warehouse in which neither satellite positioning nor other IT solutions can be used was presented. After reviewing the literature on road plann...

The design of cooperative applications combining several unmanned aerial and aquatic vehicles is now possible thanks to the considerable advancements in wireless communication technology and the low production costs for small, unmanned vehicles. For...

The application of UAVs is becoming increasingly extensive. However, high-precision autonomous landing is still a major industry difficulty. The current algorithm is not well-adapted to light changes, scale transformations, complex backgrounds, etc....

Autonomous unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are having an increasing impact in the scientific community. One of the most challenging problems in this research area is the design of robust real-time obstacle detection and avoidance systems. In the automo...