Drones, Volume 8, Issue 10

Hybrid systems offer optimal solutions for unmanned aerial platforms, showcasing their technological development in parallel and series configurations and providing alternatives for future aircraft concepts. However, the limited energetic benefit of...

This paper provides a study of free-flight air traffic behaviour in increasingly constrained airspace environments. Traffic assumes three different free-flight operational constructs with airspace constraints considered as restricted (no-fly) regions...

Navigation spoofing has been widely utilized in unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) countermeasures, due to its advantages of covertness, effectiveness, and dynamic trajectory control ability. However, existing research faces two primary challenges. Firs...

UAVs will present significant air traffic in the urban airspace in the future, which brings new challenges to urban air traffic management and control. This paper presents an air route design scheme for multi-rotor UAVs in urban airspace to enable UA...

Drone-assisted radio communication is revolutionizing future wireless networks, including sixth-generation (6G) and beyond, by providing unobstructed, line-of-sight links from air to terrestrial vehicles, enabling robust cellular cehicle-to-everythin...

This study proposes a universal (U)-control enhanced with dynamic inversion for a class of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) quadrotor flight tracking operations. In the technique, a robust compensator is integrated with the U-controller to achie...

The structural deformation monitoring of civil infrastructures can be performed using different geomatic techniques: topographic measurements with total stations and levels, TLS (terrestrial laser scanning) acquisitions, and drone-based SfM (structur...

With the rapid popularity of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), airspace safety is facing tougher challenges, especially for the identification of non-cooperative target UAVs. As a vital approach for non-cooperative target identification, radar signal...

With the rapid advancement of UAV technology and the increasing complexity of tasks, multi-UAV systems face growing challenges in task execution. Traditional task allocation algorithms often perform poorly when dealing with issues such as local optim...

With the proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology, the demand for effective collision avoidance technology has intensified. The DAIDALUS algorithm, devised by NASA Langley Research Center under the Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) framework, p...