As the number of research activities and practical deployments of unmanned vehicles has shown a rapid growth, topics related to their communication with operator and external infrastructure became of high importance. As a result a trend of employing...
In many incidents involving amateur drones (ADr), the big challenge is to quickly deploy a surveillance system that countermeasures the threat and keeps track of the intruders. Depending on the area under concern, launching a single surveillance dron...
This paper presents a companion-computer chain that converts Pixhawk-class MAVLink telemetry into operator advice on an NVIDIA Jetson Nano. A twelve-channel sliding window (
Conventional telemetry systems for unmanned aerial vehicles rely on radio frequency links that impose operational range restrictions due to their dependence on line-of-sight propagation and the licensed spectrum. This article presents a telemetry pro...
Real-time flight controllers are becoming dependent on general-purpose operating systems, as the modularity and complexity of guidance, navigation, and control systems and algorithms increases. The non-deterministic nature of operating systems create...
Autonomous takeoff and landing (ATOL) remains one of the most challenging tasks for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly in environments where Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals are degraded or unavailable. This pap...
This paper presents a lightweight MCU–EdgeTPU platform—a microcontroller unit (MCU) paired with an Edge Tensor Processing Unit (EdgeTPU) accelerator—for onboard drone-perception experiments, extended from an open-source baseline ori...
Reliable and fast communication between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) is essential for effective coordination in agricultural settings, particularly when human involvement is part of the system. This study system...
The rapid adoption of small drones for applications such as surveillance, disaster response, and infrastructure inspection has increased demand for coordinated multi-drone operations, in which information exchange is essential. However, effective col...
In this paper we explain the structure and development of a trajectory management system on board a UAV capable to achieve complex trajectories and versatile to adapt disturbances during flight. This system is built in Python and runs in a companion...
The frontiers of oceanographic survey and environmental monitoring have been expanded with the rapid development of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs). This report presents the design and construction of a USV based on the ArduSub firmware. Through a s...
There are several tools, frameworks, and algorithms to solve information sharing from multiple tasks and robots. Some applications such as ROS, Kafka, and MAVLink cover most problems when using operating systems. However, they cannot be used for part...
The development in Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) has become one of the most exploited fields of research in robotics in recent years. This is due to the robustness and versatility they present to effectively undertake a set of tasks autonomously. One of...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are versatile, adapting hardware and software for research. They are vital for remote monitoring, especially in challenging settings such as volcano observation with limited access. In response, economical computer vis...
This article presents the design, implementation, and validation of a Remotely Piloted Safety Cone (RPSC), an autonomous robotic system developed to enhance safety and operational efficiency in road maintenance. The RPSC addresses challenges associat...
Rapid advancements in the fifth generation (5G) communication technology and mobile edge computing (MEC) paradigm have led to the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in urban air mobility (UAM) networks, which provide intelligent services...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs), IoT-enabled sensing, and mobile platforms are increasingly used in precision agriculture, but fixed stations cannot fully capture within-field or canopy-level variability. This study developed and greenhouse-tested a...
Flight testing in a realistic three-dimensional virtual environment is increasingly being considered a safe and cost-effective way of evaluating aircraft models and their control systems. The paper starts by reviewing and comparing the most popular p...
Small first-person-view (FPV) drones provide a flexible platform for ecological and environmental monitoring tasks, including the localization of pollution sources, inspection of contaminated areas, and low-disturbance observation of wildlife. Howeve...