Drones, Volume 7, Issue 3

Drones have become a crucial research tool across marine environments over the past decade, being specifically useful in marine mammal research. Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) have been monitored feeding along the Catalan coast, Spain (NW Mediter...

Path planning is one of the key parts of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fast autonomous flight in cluttered environments. However, it remains a challenge to efficiently generate a high-quality trajectory for flight tasks with a high success rate. In t...

An island logistics system is vulnerable in emergency conditions and even isolated from land logistics. Drone-based distribution is an emerging solution investigated in this study to transport packages from a land base to the islands. Considering the...

Multi-UAV cooperative path planning can improve the efficiency of task completion. To deal with the space and time conflicts of multi-UAVs in complex environments, a multi-collision-based multi-UAV cooperative path planning algorithm, multi-conflict-...

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm has broad application prospects, in which scheduling is one of the key technologies determining the completion of tasks. A market-based approach is an effective way to schedule UAVs distributively and quickly, m...

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is an active remote sensing technique that typically utilises satellite data to quantify Earth surface and structural deformation. Drone InSAR should provide improved spatial-temporal data resolutions...

Wireless communication networks have been witnessing unprecedented demand due to the increasing number of connected devices and emerging bandwidth-hungry applications. Although there are many competent technologies for capacity enhancement purposes,...

Traditional multi-access edge computing (MEC) often has difficulty processing large amounts of data in the face of high computationally intensive tasks, so it needs to offload policies to offload computation tasks to adjacent edge servers. The comput...

UAVs are becoming increasingly used in the field of structural health monitoring, and the position information of them during the tasks is crucial. However, in complex scenarios such as bridges and high-rise buildings, the GNSS positioning method can...

Mobile robots, including ground robots, underwater robots, and unmanned aerial vehicles, play an increasingly important role in people’s work and lives. Path planning and obstacle avoidance are the core technologies for achieving autonomy in mo...