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Drones, Volume 8, Issue 7

July 2024 - 67 articles

Cover Story: With edge computing, IoT devices like UAVs can process data efficiently by reducing the need for onboard processing power and the data transfer time for real-time applications. Meanwhile, Federated Learning (FL) allows UAVs to improve model training by learning from others without direct data access to preserve data privacy. However, the Non-IID data issue in UAV logistics has a significant impact on the quality of AI models. To address such an issue, we propose a novel cloud–edge–end collaborative FL framework that employs clustering and cosine similarity to integrate suitable local models into the global model to effectively address the Non-IID data issue. The proposed framework has been successfully implemented in our EXPRESS2.0 UAV delivery system. View this paper
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Articles (67)

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,358 Views
31 Pages

UAV-Embedded Sensors and Deep Learning for Pathology Identification in Building Façades: A Review

  • Gabriel de Sousa Meira,
  • João Victor Ferreira Guedes and
  • Edilson de Souza Bias

22 July 2024

The use of geotechnologies in the field of diagnostic engineering has become ever more present in the identification of pathological manifestations in buildings. The implementation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and embedded sensors has stimulate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,934 Views
22 Pages

22 July 2024

In environments where satellite signals are blocked, initializing UAV swarms quickly is a technical challenge, especially indoors or in areas with weak satellite signals, making it difficult to establish the relative position of the swarm. Two common...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,475 Views
27 Pages

Multiple UAVs Networking Oriented Consistent Cooperation Method Based on Adaptive Arithmetic Sine Cosine Optimization

  • He Huang,
  • Dongqiang Li,
  • Mingbo Niu,
  • Feiyu Xie,
  • Md Sipon Miah,
  • Tao Gao and
  • Huifeng Wang

22 July 2024

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things, the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has quickly drawn considerable attention from the public. The cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-assisted vehicular networks, as a part of IoV, has become a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,896 Views
18 Pages

20 July 2024

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm confrontation jamming offers a cost-effective and long-range countermeasure against hostile swarms. Intelligent decision-making is a key factor in ensuring its effectiveness. In response to the low-timeliness probl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,090 Views
21 Pages

20 July 2024

In the rapidly developing drone industry, drone use has led to a series of safety hazards in both civil and military settings, making drone detection an increasingly important research field. It is difficult to overcome this challenge with traditiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,445 Views
13 Pages

Online Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Search Planning in an Unknown Search Environment

  • Haopeng Duan,
  • Kaiming Xiao,
  • Lihua Liu,
  • Haiwen Chen and
  • Hongbin Huang

19 July 2024

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in localized data collection and information search. However, there are still many practical challenges in real-world operations of UAV search, such as unknown search environments. Specifically, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,235 Views
24 Pages

Expediting the Convergence of Global Localization of UAVs through Forward-Facing Camera Observation

  • Zhenyu Li,
  • Xiangyuan Jiang,
  • Sile Ma,
  • Xiaojing Ma,
  • Zhenyi Lv,
  • Hongliang Ding,
  • Haiyan Ji and
  • Zheng Sun

19 July 2024

In scenarios where the global navigation satellite system is unavailable, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can employ visual algorithms to process aerial images. These images are integrated with satellite maps and digital elevation models (DEMs) to ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,828 Views
24 Pages

19 July 2024

Deploying 5G networks in mountainous rural regions can be challenging due to its unique and challenging characteristics. Attaching a transmitter to a UAV to enable connectivity requires a selection of suitable propagation models in such conditions. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,885 Views
19 Pages

A Live Detecting System for Strain Clamps of Transmission Lines Based on Dual UAVs’ Cooperation

  • Zhiwei Jia,
  • Yongkang Ouyang,
  • Chao Feng,
  • Shaosheng Fan,
  • Zheng Liu and
  • Chenhao Sun

19 July 2024

Strain clamps are critical components in high-voltage overhead transmission lines, and detection of their defects becomes an important part of regular inspection of transmission lines. A dual UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) system was proposed to detec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,868 Views
20 Pages

An All-Time Detection Algorithm for UAV Images in Urban Low Altitude

  • Yuzhuo Huang,
  • Jingyi Qu,
  • Haoyu Wang and
  • Jun Yang

18 July 2024

With the rapid development of urban air traffic, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are gradually being widely used in cities. Since UAVs are prohibited over important places in Urban Air Mobility (UAM), such as government and airports, it is important...

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