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Drones, Volume 8, Issue 6

June 2024 - 64 articles

Cover Story: The following paper explores the transformative use of drones in monitoring critical transportation hubs such as airports, seaports, and cargo terminals. Traditional inspection methods often fall short in terms of cost, efficiency, and thoroughness. This study reviews 486 publications from 2015 to 2023, highlighting the advancements in drone-based remote sensing techniques. The findings demonstrate significant improvements in time savings, cost efficiency, safety, and reliability, advocating for a shift towards more dynamic, precise, and cost-effective asset management strategies. View this paper
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Articles (64)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,490 Views
16 Pages

20 June 2024

Considering of the dynamic cooperative path planning problem of multiple UAVs in complex environments, this paper further considers the flight constraints, space coordination, and fast re-planning of UAVs after detecting sudden obstacles on the basis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,804 Views
24 Pages

20 June 2024

In this paper, we explore the problem of smooth braking at preset points in autonomous vehicles using model predictive control (MPC) with a receding horizon extended state observer (RHESO) and a neural network (NN). An NN-based modeling method is pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,541 Views
28 Pages

Optimizing Disaster Response through Efficient Path Planning of Mobile Aerial Base Station with Genetic Algorithm

  • Mohammed Sani Adam,
  • Rosdiadee Nordin,
  • Nor Fadzilah Abdullah,
  • Asma Abu-Samah,
  • Oluwatosin Ahmed Amodu and
  • Mohammed H. Alsharif

19 June 2024

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, as mobile aerial base stations (MABSs) in Disaster Response Networks (DRNs) has gained significant interest in addressing coverage gaps of user equipment (UE) and establishing ubiquitous connecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,591 Views
23 Pages

18 June 2024

This paper investigates the impact of non-ideal environmental factors, including hardware impairments, random user distributions, and imperfect channel conditions, on the performance of distributed reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted ai...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,081 Views
16 Pages

18 June 2024

The transport of temperature-sensitive biological samples (blood, medicines, patient samples, vaccines, organs, etc.) to hard-to-reach places remains a challenge. This is especially true in places where infrastructure is limited, for which the use of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,596 Views
42 Pages

Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots for Aerial Manipulation—A Survey of Fabrication Methods

  • Anuraj Uthayasooriyan,
  • Fernando Vanegas,
  • Amir Jalali,
  • Krishna Manaswi Digumarti,
  • Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi and
  • Felipe Gonzalez

17 June 2024

Aerial manipulators have seen a rapid uptake for multiple applications, including inspection tasks and aerial robot–human interaction in building and construction. Whilst single degree of freedom (DoF) and multiple DoF rigid link manipulators (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,421 Views
23 Pages

17 June 2024

Ruins, marked by decay and abandonment, present challenges for digital documentation due to their varied conditions and remote locations. Surveying inaccessible ruins demands innovative approaches for safety and accuracy. Drones with high-resolution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,077 Views
22 Pages

16 June 2024

This paper proposes an age of information (AoI)-inspired secure transmissions strategy for secure transmission from the maritime wireless sensor network to the onshore base station (BS) with the assistance of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and rec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,341 Views
25 Pages

A Performance Assessment on Rotor Noise-Informed Active Multidrone Sound Source Tracking Methods

  • Benjamin Yen,
  • Taiki Yamada,
  • Katsutoshi Itoyama and
  • Kazuhiro Nakadai

14 June 2024

This study evaluates and assesses the performance of recent developments in sound source tracking using microphone arrays from multiple drones. Stemming from a baseline study, which triangulates the spatial spectrum calculated from the MUltiple SIgna...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,275 Views
20 Pages

14 June 2024

With the rapid industrialization utilizing multi-rotor drones in recent years, an increase in urban flights is expected in the near future. This may potentially result in noise pollution due to the operation of drones. This study investigates the nea...

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