Drones, Volume 9, Issue 1

Motion planning is critical for ensuring precise and efficient operations of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). While polynomial parameterization has been the prevailing approach, its limitations in handling complex trajectory requirements have motivat...

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry has developed rapidly in recent years and is being applied in a wide range of fields. However, incidents involving unauthorized UAVs that threaten public safety have occurred frequently, highlighting the nee...

The rapid advancement of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has transformed a wide range of applications, including military operations, disaster response, agricultural monitoring, and infrastructure inspection. Deploying multiple UAVs to work collabora...

As Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology advances, UAVs have attracted widespread attention across military and civilian fields due to their low cost and flexibility. In unknown environments, UAVs can significantly reduce the risk of casualties an...

This article presents an optimal tracking controller retrofitted with a nonlinear adaptive integral compensator, specifically designed to ensure robust and accurate positioning of Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) t...

Deep-sea exploration relies heavily on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for data acquisition, but their operational endurance is limited by battery constraints. The Archimedes spiral hydrokinetic turbine (ASHT), as a novel type of horizontal-axi...

This study proposes a comprehensive framework for the identification of nonlinear dynamics in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), integrating data-driven methodologies with theoretical modeling approaches. Two principal techniques are employed: Proporti...

This paper presents a three-dimensional (3D) robust adaptive finite-time path-following controller for underactuated Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), addressing model uncertainties, external disturbances, and actuator magnitude and rate saturat...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant attention due to their versatility in applications such as surveillance, reconnaissance, and search-and-rescue operations. In GPS-denied environments, where traditional navigation systems fail,...

Driven by the rapid advancement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology, the field of UAV object tracking has witnessed significant progress. This study introduces an innovative single-stream UAV tracking architecture, dubbed NT-Track, which is d...