2023 September - 53 articles
In order to overcome the influence of complex environmental disturbance factors such as nonlinear time-varying characteristics on the dynamic control performance of small fixed-wing UAVs, the nonlinear expression relationship of neural networks (NNs)...
This paper investigates the problem of cooperative standoff tracking using multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with control input constraints. In order to achieve accurate moving target tracking in the presence of unknown background w...
Significant progress has been made in object tracking tasks thanks to the application of deep learning. However, current deep neural network-based object tracking methods often rely on stacking sub-modules and introducing complex structures to improv...
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant popularity and have been extensively utilized in wireless communications. Due to the susceptibility of wireless channels to eavesdropping, interference and other security attacks, UAV...
Distinguishing ship identities is critical in ensuring the safety and supervision of the marine agriculture and transportation industry. In this paper, we present a comprehensive investigation and validation of the progression of ship re-identificati...
Relay-aided Device-to-Device (D2D) communication combining visible light communication (VLC) with radio frequency (RF) is a promising paradigm in the internet of things (IoT). Static relay limits the flexibility and maintaining connectivity of relays...
UAVs flying in complex low-altitude environments often require real-time sensing to avoid environmental obstacles. In previous approaches, UAVs have usually carried out motion planning based on primitive navigation maps such as point clouds and raste...
Augmented Reality (AR) technology visualizes virtual objects in the real environment, offering users an immersive experience that enhances their spatial perception of virtual objects. This makes AR an important tool for visualization in engineering,...
Measuring maize grain moisture content (GMC) variability at maturity provides an essential piece of information for the formulation of maize harvesting sequences and the applications of precision agriculture. Canopy chlorophyll content (CCC) is an im...
In the field of drone-based object tracking, utilization of the infrared modality can improve the robustness of the tracker in scenes with severe illumination change and occlusions and expand the applicable scene of the drone object tracking task. In...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (hereafter drones) are rapidly replacing manned aircraft as the preferred tool used for aerial wildlife surveys, but questions remain about which survey protocols are most effective and least impactful on wildlife behaviors....
Communication using millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz bands between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a crucial technology for the realization of non-terrestrial networks envisioned for Beyond 5G. While these frequency bands offer remarkably hi...
The Federal Aviation Administration introduced the concept of urban air mobility (UAM), a new three-dimensional transport system that operates with a fusion of manned/unmanned aerial vehicles on an urban or intercity scale. The rapid development of U...
Aedes aegypti is widely distributed worldwide and is the main vector mosquito for dengue, one of the most important infectious diseases in middle- and low-income countries. The landscape composition and vegetation cover determine appropriate environm...
The purpose of this paper is to establish a transition strategy for tilt-rotor vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on an optimal design method. Firstly, The flyable transition corridor was calculated based on bot...
With the rapid development of communication technology, unmanned aerial vehicle–mobile edge computing (UAV-MEC) networks have emerged with powerful capabilities. However, existing research studies have neglected the issues involving user groupi...
Recent improvements in low-altitude remote sensors and image processing analysis can be utilised to support archaeological research. Over the last decade, the increased use of remote sensing sensors and their products for archaeological science and c...
Benefiting from its structural simplicity and low cost, the inertial/ranging integrated navigation system is widely utilized in multi-agent applications, particularly in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). As the deployment of UAVs in complex environmen...
This paper focuses on a research project for the acquisition and post-production of digital data to create informative virtual representations and digital twins of different European Cultural Heritage sites. The goal was to establish a reliable datab...
In recent years, the low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite network has achieved considerable development. Moreover, it is necessary to introduce edge computing into LEO networks, which can provide high-quality services, such as worldwide seamless low-delay...
Power lines are critical infrastructure components in power grid systems. Strand breakage is a kind of serious defect of power lines that can directly impact the reliability and safety of power supply. Due to the slender morphology of power lines and...
Drone swarms have gained a lot of popularity in recent times because, as a group, drones can perform highly intelligent tasks. Drone swarms are strongly inspired by the flocking behavior of birds, insects, and schools of fish, where all the members w...
In emergency rescue missions, rescue teams can use UAVs and efficient path planning strategies to provide flexible rescue services for trapped people, which can improve rescue efficiency and reduce personnel risks. However, since the task environment...
In terms of manned aircraft, pilots usually detect icing conditions by visual cues or by means of ice detector systems. If one of these cues is seen by the crew or systems detect icing conditions, they have to apply the evasive procedure as defined w...
The state-of-the-art geopositioning is the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), which operates based on the satellite constellation providing positioning, navigation, and timing services. While the Global Positioning System (GPS) is widely used...
Measuring the surface deformation of asphalt pavement and acquiring the rutting condition is of great importance to transportation agencies. This paper proposes a rutting measuring method based on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mounted with Light D...
Nowadays, the study and digitization of historical, architectural, and archaeological heritage are extremely important, covering the creation of digital twins—virtual replicas of real spaces and environments. Such reconstructions can be achieve...
Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) with autonomous maneuvering decision capabilities are expected to play a key role in future unmanned systems applications. While reinforcement learning has proven successful in solving UAS path planning problems in si...
Distributed electric propulsion technology has great potential and advantages in the development of drones. In this paper, to study the slipstream effect of distributed propellers, the actuator disk method was used to verify a single propeller, and t...
To carry out required aid operations efficiently and effectively after an occurrence of a disaster such as an earthquake, emergency control centers must determine the effect of disasters precisely and and in a timely manner. Different kinds of data-g...
This paper presents a fundamentally different approach to wind estimation using Uncrewed Aircraft (UA) than the vast majority of existing methods. This method uses no on-board flow sensor and does not attempt to estimate thrust or drag forces. Using...
This paper explores the advancements of drones in the context of sixth-generation mobile communication technology (6G) green Internet of Things (IoT) through the utilization of digital twin (DT) technology within unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network...
This article presents a constraint modeling approach to global coverage-path planning for linear-infrastructure inspection using multiple autonomous UAVs. The problem is mathematically formulated as a variant of the Min–Max K-Chinese Postman Problem...
Urban informality in developing economies like South Africa takes two forms: freestanding shacks are built in informal settlements, and backyard shacks are built in the yard of a formal house. The latter is evident in established townships around Sou...
The multi-UAV task assignment problem in large-scale group-to-group interception scenarios presents challenges in terms of large computational complexity and the lack of accurate evaluation models. This paper proposes an effective evaluation model an...
Opium poppy is a medicinal plant, and its cultivation is illegal without legal approval in China. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an effective tool for monitoring illegal poppy cultivation. However, targets often appear occluded and confused, and it...
Visual navigation based on image matching has become one of the most important research fields for UAVs to achieve autonomous navigation, because of its low cost, strong anti-jamming ability, and high performance. Currently, numerous positioning and...
A robust controller for the waypoint tracking of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is proposed in this paper, in which position control and attitude control are effectively decoupled. Model predictive control (MPC) is employed in the position...
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is a promising field of services based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which aims to provide people and cargo transportation services in underserved areas. The recent advancements in the fields of aviation and mobile t...
Unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) are now used to support security precautions in search and rescue operations to track and evaluate critical services, to provide cybersecurity measures by transporting security supply chain management (SCM) to sports...
This paper introduces a location–allocation model to support environmental emergency response strategic planning using a drone-based network. Drones are used to verify potential emergencies, gathering additional information to support emergency...
High water levels near railway tracks can be a major factor affecting the safety of train passage. Water conditions near the tracks are normally monitored through visual inspections. However, this method is limited in spatial coverage and may not pro...
The current morphing technologies are mostly regarded as auxiliary tools, providing additional control torques to enhance the flight maneuverability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and they cannot exist independently of the traditional control su...
Aerial manipulation aims to combine the versatility and the agility of aerial platforms with the manipulation capabilities of robotic arms. Their fast deployment allows for their implementation in maintenance tasks and support during disaster situati...
Accurate obstacle detection plays a crucial role in the creation of high-precision maps within unstructured terrain environments, as it supplies vital decision-making information for unmanned engineering vehicles. Existing works primarily focus on th...
Despite the growing demand for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the use of conventional UAVs is limited, as most of them require being remotely operated by a person who is not within the vehicle’s field of view. Recently, many studies have intr...
The vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is extensively employed in various sectors. To ensure adherence to design specifications and mission requirements, it is vital to verify flight control and system performance...
The rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is an important tree species for the production of natural latex, which is an essential raw material for varieties of industrial and non-industrial products. Rapid and accurate identification of the number of rubb...
This study investigates the application of unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with a Micasense RedEdge-MX multispectral camera for the estimation of Secchi depth (SD) in inland water bodies. The research analyzed and compared five sun-glint c...
The ability of airships to fly in hover is a major plus of this category of flying vehicles. However, especially for the case of autonomous flight, this feature can be exploited only recurring to a carefully designed layout of the thrusters on board....
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