Drones, Volume 9, Issue 6

This paper proposes a distance estimation error reduction framework to improve ground node localization accuracy in urban environments using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and path loss measurements. The primary goal of the framework is to bound di...

Street crime is a critical public concern, attracting wide social and research attention. Conventional solutions to reduce street crimes are dispatching more police force in patrol and installing more cameras for street surveillance, which, however,...

As urban populations expand and congestion intensifies, traditional ground transportation struggles to satisfy escalating mobility demands. Unmanned Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft, as a key enabler of Urban Air Mobility (UAM)...

SmallUnmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) have seen rapid adoption thanks to advances in endurance, communications, autonomy, and manufacturing costs, yet most testing remains focused on GPS-supported, above-ground operations. This study introduces new tes...

This paper addresses the challenge of ineffective coordination between terminal maneuvering and precision strike capabilities in hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). To resolve this issue, an intelligent spiral maneuver trajectory generation m...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising solution for collaborative search missions in complex environments. However, in the presence of interference, communication disruptions between UAVs and ground control stations can severely...

The increasing complexity of Internet of Drones (IoD) platforms demands more accessible ways for users to interact with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data systems. Traditional methods requiring technical API knowledge create barriers for non-speciali...

The channel wing offers unique advantages in the short take-off and landing (STOL) application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). To investigate its aerodynamic performance, an individual propeller was simulated using the actuator disk model. The co...

This paper explores breakthroughs from the perspective of UAV navigation architectures and proposes a UAV autonomous navigation method based on aerial–ground cooperative perception to address the challenge of UAV navigation in GPS-denied and un...

The use of UAVs for analyzing soil degradation processes, particularly erosion, has become a crucial tool in environmental monitoring. However, the use of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) or TLS (Terrestrial Lasser Scanner) may not be affordable f...