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Drones, Volume 6, Issue 7

July 2022 - 31 articles

Cover Story: Since the concept of package delivery using drones was introduced, there have been dramatic advancements in drone technologies. However, it is still difficult to find such drone-based service delivery in our lives. One of the critical barriers to the implementation of drone-based service delivery at a full scale is the difficulties in the air traffic control and collision avoidance of drones. As a systematic solution to these difficulties, this study addresses a zoning approach that divides a service area into a set of zones and assigns a single drone to a zone. From the experiments of this study, where different demand distributions and different objective functions for demand clustering are considered, it is demonstrated that the safety of drones as well as the efficient use of the units can be achieved by the zoning approach. View this paper
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Articles (31)

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,886 Views
29 Pages

A Unified Airspace Risk Management Framework for UAS Operations

  • Suraj Bijjahalli,
  • Alessandro Gardi,
  • Nichakorn Pongsakornsathien,
  • Roberto Sabatini and
  • Trevor Kistan

21 July 2022

Collision risk modelling has a long history in the aviation industry, with mature models currently utilised for the strategic planning of airspace sectors and air routes. However, the progressive introduction of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and ot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,732 Views
12 Pages

21 July 2022

Topological maps generated in complex and irregular unknown environments are meaningful for autonomous robots’ navigation. To obtain the skeleton of the environment without obstacle polygon extraction and clustering, we propose a method to obta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,643 Views
17 Pages

Aircraft Carrier Pose Tracking Based on Adaptive Region in Visual Landing

  • Jiexin Zhou,
  • Qiufu Wang,
  • Zhuo Zhang and
  • Xiaoliang Sun

21 July 2022

Due to its structural simplicity and its strong anti-electromagnetic ability, landing guidance based on airborne monocular vision has gained more and more attention. Monocular 6D pose tracking of the aircraft carrier is one of the key technologies in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,332 Views
32 Pages

MCO Plan: Efficient Coverage Mission for Multiple Micro Aerial Vehicles Modeled as Agents

  • Liseth Viviana Campo,
  • Agapito Ledezma and
  • Juan Carlos Corrales

21 July 2022

Micro aerial vehicle (MAV) fleets have gained essential recognition in the decision schemes for precision agriculture, disaster management, and other coverage missions. However, they have some challenges in becoming massively deployed. One of them is...

  • Feature Paper
  • Communication
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,755 Views
12 Pages

Drones for Area-Wide Larval Source Management of Malaria Mosquitoes

  • Wolfgang R. Mukabana,
  • Guido Welter,
  • Pius Ohr,
  • Leka Tingitana,
  • Makame H. Makame,
  • Abdullah S. Ali and
  • Bart G. J. Knols

20 July 2022

Given the stagnating progress in the fight against malaria, there is an urgent need for area-wide integrated vector management strategies to complement existing intra-domiciliary tools, i.e., insecticide-treated bednets and indoor residual spraying....

  • Article
  • Open Access
124 Citations
29,289 Views
55 Pages

19 July 2022

Novel electric aircraft designs coupled with intense efforts from academia, government and industry led to a paradigm shift in urban transportation by introducing UAM. While UAM promises to introduce a new mode of transport, it depends on ground infr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,298 Views
19 Pages

19 July 2022

Small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have been increasingly popular in surveying and mapping tasks. While photogrammetry has been the primary UAS sensing technology in other industries, construction activities can also benefit from accurate surveying...

  • Article
  • Open Access
105 Citations
11,254 Views
29 Pages

Computing in the Sky: A Survey on Intelligent Ubiquitous Computing for UAV-Assisted 6G Networks and Industry 4.0/5.0

  • Saeed Hamood Alsamhi,
  • Alexey V. Shvetsov,
  • Santosh Kumar,
  • Jahan Hassan,
  • Mohammed A. Alhartomi,
  • Svetlana V. Shvetsova,
  • Radhya Sahal and
  • Ammar Hawbani

18 July 2022

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being used in a high-computation paradigm enabled with smart applications in the Beyond Fifth Generation (B5G) wireless communication networks. These networks have an avenue for generating a considerab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,439 Views
20 Pages

17 July 2022

A biplane quadrotor is a hybrid type of UAV that has wide applications such as payload pickup and delivery, surveillance, etc. This simulation study mainly focuses on handling the total rotor failure, and for that, we propose a control architecture t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,831 Views
24 Pages

16 July 2022

3D building models are widely used in many applications. The traditional image-based 3D reconstruction pipeline without using semantic information is inefficient for building reconstruction in rural areas. An oblique view selection methodology for ef...

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