Drones, Volume 6, Issue 5

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path planning problem is primarily concerned with avoiding collision with obstacles while determining the best flight path to the target position. This paper first establishes a cost function to transform the UAV rou...

Drones, which were first used in military applications, are now widely used by civilians for various purposes such as for deliveries and as cameras. There has been a lack of research into what drone users expect in terms of drone design and operation...

Climate-related natural disasters have affected the lives of thousands of people. Global warming creates warmer and drier conditions which increase the risk of wildfires. In large-scale disasters such as wildfires, search and rescue (SAR) operations...

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In this study, experimental investigations are used to explore the wake propagation and characteristics of a multi-rotor unmanned air vehicle (UAV) in a forward flight mission. Qualitative smoke visualization is used first to gain a qualitative under...

The core of the short takeoff and landing problem in thrust-vectoring V/STOL vehicles is the tilt angle control of the thrust vector nozzles. This work resolves it by figuring out the optimal tilt angle time history with optimization methods. Since t...

Emerging precision agriculture techniques rely on the frequent collection of high-quality data which can be acquired efficiently by unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The main obstacle for wider adoption of this technology is related to UAS operational c...

In the past two decades, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained attention in applications such as industrial inspection, search and rescue, mapping, and environment monitoring. However, the autonomous navigation capability of UAVs is aggravated...

A system that can fly off and touches down to execute particular tasks is a flying robot. Nowadays, these flying robots are capable of flying without human control and make decisions according to the situation with the help of onboard sensors and con...

In recent years, with the further development of agricultural aviation technology, the plant protection UAV has been widely used, especially in some agricultural environments with limited operating conditions due to its advantages of high efficiency,...