Drones, Volume 7, Issue 6

Mini-drones can be used for a variety of tasks, ranging from weather monitoring to package delivery, search and rescue, and also recreation. In outdoor scenarios, they leverage Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and/or similar systems for localization...

Different from conventional reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), simultaneous transmitting and reflecting RIS (STAR-RIS) can reflect and transmit signals to the receiver. In this paper, to serve more ground users and increase deployment flexibi...

In this paper, an object detection and recognition method based on improved YOLOv5 is proposed for application on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerial images. Firstly, we improved the traditional Gabor function to obtain Gabor convolutional kernels w...

In recent years, correlation filtering has been widely used in the field of UAV target tracking for its high efficiency and good robustness, even on a common CPU. However, the existing correlation filter-based tracking methods still have major proble...

Autonomous landing is one of the key technologies for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which can improve task flexibility in various fields. In this paper, a vision-based autonomous landing strategy is proposed for a quadrotor micro-UAV based on a nov...

This work focuses on the efficiency improvement of grid-based Coverage Path Planning (CPP) methodologies in real-world applications with UAVs. While several sophisticated approaches are met in literature, grid-based methods are not commonly used in r...

In recent years, UAV remote sensing has gradually attracted the attention of scientific researchers and industry, due to its broad application prospects. It has been widely used in agriculture, forestry, mining, and other industries. UAVs can be flex...

Compared to detection methods employed by Mars rovers and orbiters, the employment of Mars UAVs presents clear advantages. However, the unique atmospheric conditions on Mars pose significant challenges to the design and operation of such UAVs. One of...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can bring many benefits, particularly in emergency response and disaster management. However, they also induce negative effects, such as noise and visual pollution, risk, and integrity concerns. In this work, we study...

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) is an active research subject as its proposed applications are increasing. UTM aims to enable a variety of UAS operations, including package delivery, infrastructure inspection, and emergency m...