Drones, Volume 7, Issue 1

Drones have been included in more and more activities in various domains, such as military, commercial and personal use. The existing legislative framework insufficiently addresses the responsibility and preventive measures angles in case of vulnerab...

Registration of unmanned aircraft is a common policy around the world and forms part of the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s model regulations for unmanned aircraft. This study conducts a review of the various registration policies t...

With the continuous development of UAV technology and swarm intelligence technology, the UAV formation cooperative mission has attracted wide attention because of its remarkable function and flexibility to complete complex and changeable tasks, such...

When employing remote sensing images, it is challenging to classify vegetation species and ground objects due to the abundance of wetland vegetation species and the high fragmentation of ground objects. Remote sensing images are classified primarily...

Energy grids represent a fundamental infrastructure of any country. These structures consist of many kilometres of power lines that must be periodically inspected and maintained. Among the necessary operations are installing and removing bird diverte...

In the traditional express delivery sector, trucks are the most available and efficient transportation mode in urban areas. However, due to the pressures of traffic congestion and air pollution problems, many cities have implemented strict measures t...

This work demonstrates distributed motion planning for multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle in a windy outdoor environment. The motion planning is modeled as a receding horizon mixed integer nonlinear programming (RH-MINLP) problem. Each quadrotor sol...

Background: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being used commercially for crop protection in East Asia as a new type of equipment for pesticide applications, which is receiving more and more attention worldwide. A new model of pear cul...

With the strengths of quickness, low cost, and adaptability, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is widely utilized in the next-generation wireless network. However, some risks and hidden dangers such as UAV “black flight” disturb...

Multi-UAV cooperative trajectory planning (MUCTP) refers to the planning of multiple flyable trajectories based on the location of each UAV and mission point in a complex environment. In the planning process, the complex 3D space structure increases...