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Drones, Volume 9, Issue 6

June 2025 - 65 articles

Cover Story: This review paper systematically explores how digital twin (DT) technology can be developed for UAV and advanced air mobility (AAM) systems. By analyzing publications across the UAV, aviation, and manufacturing domains, it identifies critical aspects of UAV-based DT construction—framework architecture, geometric, physical, behavioral, and rule modeling, and cyber–physical consistency. This paper highlights current applications and unresolved challenges, offering insights with which to enhance the robustness, reliability, and real-world applicability of future AAM-based DT solutions. View this paper
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Articles (65)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,770 Views
18 Pages

Modeling and Simulation of Urban Laser Countermeasures Against Low-Slow-Small UAVs

  • Zixun Ye,
  • Jiang You,
  • Jingliang Gu,
  • Hangning Kou and
  • Guohao Li

8 June 2025

This study addresses the modeling and simulation challenges of urban laser countermeasure systems against Low-Slow-Small (LSS) UAVs by proposing a physics simulation framework integrating Geographic Information System (GIS)-based dynamic 3D real-worl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,569 Views
38 Pages

8 June 2025

In view of the difficulties encountered when tuning parameters and the lack of anti-interference capabilities exhibited by high-precision trajectory-tracking control of quadrotor UAVs in complex dynamic environments, this paper proposes a fusion cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,721 Views
23 Pages

An End-to-End Solution for Large-Scale Multi-UAV Mission Path Planning

  • Jiazhan Gao,
  • Liruizhi Jia,
  • Minchi Kuang,
  • Heng Shi and
  • Jihong Zhu

8 June 2025

With the increasing adoption of cooperative multi-UAV systems in applications such as cargo delivery and ground reconnaissance, the demand for scalable and efficient path planning methods has grown substantially. However, traditional heuristic algori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,703 Views
24 Pages

8 June 2025

This paper addresses the challenges of cooperative formation control and prescribed-time tracking for networked quadrotor UAVs under speed and input saturation constraints. A hierarchical control framework including position formation layer and attit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,829 Views
27 Pages

7 June 2025

The civil and military use of autonomously or remotely controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has become standard in many sectors. However, their role as supplementary vehicles for helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) or search and rescue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,450 Views
21 Pages

6 June 2025

Unmanned tilt-rotor electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft face significant control challenges during the transition from hover to forward flight, particularly when using open-source autopilot systems that rely on open-loop tilt cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,955 Views
26 Pages

6 June 2025

The electric vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing (FW-VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) combines the advantages of fixed-wing aircraft and multi-rotor aircraft. Based on the cell discharge characteristics and the power system features, this pap...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,425 Views
26 Pages

6 June 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are being increasingly implemented in parcel delivery applications. The scientific progress in this field is progressing exponentially. However, there is a notable gap in synthesizing recent research progress in UAV ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,738 Views
19 Pages

6 June 2025

Controlled Traffic Regions (CTRs) around major airports pose an important challenge to Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) traffic management. Current regulations highly restrict UAS missions in these areas by confining them to segregated areas. This paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,073 Views
17 Pages

Task Allocation and Path Planning Method for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

  • Feng Liu,
  • Wei Xu,
  • Zhiwen Feng,
  • Changdong Yu,
  • Xiao Liang,
  • Qun Su and
  • Jian Gao

6 June 2025

Cooperative operations of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) have extensive applications in fields such as marine exploration, ecological observation, and subsea security. Path planning, as a key technology for UUV autonomous navigation, is crucial...

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