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A Modified YOLOv8 Detection Network for UAV Aerial Image Recognition

  • Yiting Li,
  • Qingsong Fan,
  • Haisong Huang,
  • Zhenggong Han and
  • Qiang Gu

5 May 2023

UAV multitarget detection plays a pivotal role in civil and military fields. Although deep learning methods provide a more effective solution to this task, changes in target size, shape change, occlusion, and lighting conditions from the perspective...

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  • Open Access
288 Citations
49,393 Views
42 Pages

15 June 2023

In recent years, UAV remote sensing has gradually attracted the attention of scientific researchers and industry, due to its broad application prospects. It has been widely used in agriculture, forestry, mining, and other industries. UAVs can be flex...

  • Review
  • Open Access
227 Citations
36,490 Views
37 Pages

Review of Autonomous Path Planning Algorithms for Mobile Robots

  • Hongwei Qin,
  • Shiliang Shao,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Xiaotian Yu,
  • Yi Jiang and
  • Zonghan Cao

18 March 2023

Mobile robots, including ground robots, underwater robots, and unmanned aerial vehicles, play an increasingly important role in people’s work and lives. Path planning and obstacle avoidance are the core technologies for achieving autonomy in mo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
211 Citations
60,828 Views
41 Pages

Vision-Based Navigation Techniques for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Review and Challenges

  • Muhammad Yeasir Arafat,
  • Muhammad Morshed Alam and
  • Sangman Moh

27 January 2023

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have gained increasing interest in both academia and industries. The evolution of UAV technologies, such as artificial intelligence, component miniaturization, and computer v...

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  • Open Access
210 Citations
27,848 Views
23 Pages

11 August 2023

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery is a meaningful foundation in various research domains. However, UAV imagery poses unique challenges, including large image sizes, small sizes detection objects, dense distribution, overlappin...

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164 Citations
24,039 Views
29 Pages

YOLO-Based UAV Technology: A Review of the Research and Its Applications

  • Chunling Chen,
  • Ziyue Zheng,
  • Tongyu Xu,
  • Shuang Guo,
  • Shuai Feng,
  • Weixiang Yao and
  • Yubin Lan

10 March 2023

In recent decades, scientific and technological developments have continued to increase in speed, with researchers focusing not only on the innovation of single technologies but also on the cross-fertilization of multidisciplinary technologies. Unman...

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  • Open Access
136 Citations
5,122 Views
22 Pages

MobileRaT: A Lightweight Radio Transformer Method for Automatic Modulation Classification in Drone Communication Systems

  • Qinghe Zheng,
  • Xinyu Tian,
  • Zhiguo Yu,
  • Yao Ding,
  • Abdussalam Elhanashi,
  • Sergio Saponara and
  • Kidiyo Kpalma

22 September 2023

Nowadays, automatic modulation classification (AMC) has become a key component of next-generation drone communication systems, which are crucial for improving communication efficiency in non-cooperative environments. The contradiction between the acc...

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118 Citations
34,736 Views
45 Pages

UAV Formation Trajectory Planning Algorithms: A Review

  • Yunhong Yang,
  • Xingzhong Xiong and
  • Yuehao Yan

16 January 2023

With the continuous development of UAV technology and swarm intelligence technology, the UAV formation cooperative mission has attracted wide attention because of its remarkable function and flexibility to complete complex and changeable tasks, such...

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  • Open Access
115 Citations
8,935 Views
18 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Cost-Effective and Responsive Robot for Autism Treatment

  • Aditya Singh,
  • Kislay Raj,
  • Teerath Kumar,
  • Swapnil Verma and
  • Arunabha M. Roy

23 January 2023

Recent studies state that, for a person with autism spectrum disorder, learning and improvement is often seen in environments where technological tools are involved. A robot is an excellent tool to be used in therapy and teaching. It can transform te...

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  • Open Access
110 Citations
37,670 Views
19 Pages

Last-Mile Drone Delivery: Past, Present, and Future

  • Hossein Eskandaripour and
  • Enkhsaikhan Boldsaikhan

21 January 2023

Sustainable green products and services garner more attention from companies and enterprises that aim to succeed and grow in highly competitive markets by imposing less harms on the environment and ecosystems. Last-mile delivery from local distributi...

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