The abuse of UAVs poses a potential risk to social security, necessitating the investigation of anti-UAV methods to safeguard critical areas. However, the existing UAV countermeasures face challenges such as high environmental impact, restricted spat...
UAV equipped three-dimensional (3D) wireless networks can provide a solution for the requirements of 5G communications, such as enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) and massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC). Especially, the introduction of an unmann...
In this paper, a new relay system that uses the UAV as a relay station between the tethered UAV and ground user (TU2U2G) is proposed. The TU2U2G system uses a TUAV as a viable alternative to replace BS and provide seamless service over a cable that s...
The technologies of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have seen extremely rapid development in recent years. UAV technologies are being developed much faster than the means of their legislation. There have been many means of UAV detection and neutraliz...
In this paper, we introduce an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) deployment design with a connectivity constraint for UAV-assisted communication networks. In such networks, multiple UAVs are collaboratively deployed in the air to form a network that real...
With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), IoT devices are increasingly being deployed in scenarios with large footprints, remote locations, and complex geographic environments. In these scenarios, base stations are usually not easily depl...
Most conventional speech recognition systems have mainly concentrated on voice-driven control of personal user devices such as smartphones. Therefore, a speech recognition system used in a special environment needs to be developed in consideration of...
In this paper, we present a VR-based control framework for multi-UAV (rotorcraft-type) aerial manipulation that enables simultaneous control of each UAV and its onboard five-degree-of-freedom (5-DoF) manipulator using virtual-reality controllers. Ins...
This study explores the integration of point cloud data obtained from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to address limitations in photogrammetry and to create comprehensive models of aquatic environments. The UAV pl...
Cross-view image matching has attracted extensive attention due to its huge potential applications, such as localization and navigation. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has been developed rapidly in recent years, and people have more opportu...
In areas with limited infrastructure, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can come in handy as relays for car-to-car communications. Since UAVs are able to fully explore a three-dimensional environment while flying, communications that involve them can b...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have transformed the process of data collection and analysis in a variety of research disciplines, delivering unparalleled adaptability and efficacy. This paper presents a thorough examination of UAV datasets, emphasiz...
The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with the Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing a wide range of applications. However, collecting massive sensing data from large-scale fields efficiently remains challenging, constrained by the...
Modern multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) attacks pose significant challenges to existing counter-UAV frameworks due to their agility, irregular spatial formations, and increasing reliance on intelligent evasive behaviors. This paper proposes a unif...
This article investigates the transmission of downlink control signals for multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) clusters in collaborative search and rescue operations in mountainous environments. In this scenario, a reconfigurable intelligent surfa...
In this paper, we propose a geometric channel model for air-to-air (A2A) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication scenarios. The model is established by incorporating line-of-sight, specular reflection, and diffuse scattering components, and it ca...
UAVs have rapidly become prevalent in applications related to surveillance, military operations, and disaster relief. Their low cost, operational flexibility, and unmanned capabilities make them ideal for accomplishing tasks in areas deemed dangerous...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are integral to the development of smart city infrastructures, enabling essential services such as real-time surveillance, urban traffic regulation, and cooperative environmental monitoring. UAV-to-UAV communication ne...
In this paper, a collaboration scheme between a high-altitude platform (HAP) and several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for wireless communication networks is investigated. The main objective of this study is to maximize the total downlink throughpu...
The rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has led to many security problems. In order to prevent UAVs from invading restricted areas or famous buildings, an anti-UAV defense system (AUDS) has been developed and become a research topic...
As interest grows in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems, UAVs have been proposed to take on increasingly more tasks that were previously assigned to humans. One such task is the delivery of goods within urban cities using UAVs, which would otherwi...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used for road infrastructure inspection and monitoring. However, challenges such as scale variation, complex background interference, and the scarcity of annotated UAV datasets limit the performance of...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is one of the latest technologies for high spatial resolution 3D modeling of the Earth. The objectives of this study are to assess low-cost UAV data using image radiometric transformation techniques and investigate its e...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed as base stations (BSs) for emergency communications of user equipments (UEs) in 5G/6G networks. In multi-UAV communication networks, UAVs’ load balancing and UEs’ data rate fairness are two challenging...
Much agricultural and forestry land in the world cannot be accessed by ground planting equipment because of traffic, terrain, and other factors. This not only causes low efficiency and waste of resources, but also has a negative impact on the sustain...
This review paper provides insights into optimization strategies for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in a variety of surveillance tasks and scenarios. From basic path planning to complex mission execution, we comprehensively evaluate the multifaceted...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used for target detection in modern battlefields. From the viewpoint of the opponents, false target jamming is an effective approach to decrease the UAV detection ability or probability, but currently...
This paper is concerned with relative localization-based optimal area coverage placement using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). It is assumed that only one of the UAVs has its global position information before performing the area coverage t...
Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have received growing popularity in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) which often deploys many sensors in a relatively wide region. Current trends focus on deployment of a single UAV or a swarm of it to generally...
In this paper, a real-time deep learning-based framework for detecting and tracking Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in video streams captured by a fixed-wing UAV is proposed. The proposed framework consists of two steps, namely intra-frame multi-UAV...
Recent advancements in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have proven UAVs to be an inevitable part of future networking and communications systems. While many researchers have proposed UAV-assisted solutions for improving traditional network performanc...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant popularity across various domains, but their proliferation also raises concerns about security, public safety, and privacy. Consequently, the detection and tracking of UAVs have become crucial....
This paper presents the spring drive launcher for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or UAV. Due to the absence that the UAV required large area for taking-off. However, to achieve the solution for this problem, we design spring drive launcher to bring the UAV...
In this paper, we present a novel design for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication networks with wireless backhaul, where an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (ARIS) is deployed to improve connections between a UAV and multiple users, w...
Fleet mission planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is the process of creating flight plans for a specific set of objectives and typically over a time period. Due to the increasing focus on the usage of large UAVs, a key challenge is to conduc...
Practical evaluation of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) network requires a lot of money to build experiment environments, which includes UAVs, network devices, flight controllers, and so on. To investigate the time-sensitivity of the multi-UAV netw...
This paper presents a dynamic simulation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) moving on a launcher. The UAV launcher consists of a metal rail that is positioned at a launch angle, a spring and a winch to be able to stretch the spring. Prior to launch the...
Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are frequently present in the civilian environment. However, proper implementations of different solutions based on these aircraft still face important challenges. This article deals with multi-UAV systems, fo...
UAVs—unmanned aerial vehicles—facilitate data acquisition at temporal and spatial scales that still remain unachievable for traditional remote sensing platforms. However, current legal frameworks that regulate UAVs present significant barriers to res...
Our study proposes a UAV communications recovery strategy under meteorological conditions based on a ray tracing simulation of excessive path loss in four distinct three-dimensional (3D) urban environments. We start by reviewing the air-to-ground pro...
As the low-altitude economy undergoes rapid growth, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have served as mobile sink nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), significantly enhancing data collection efficiency. However, the open nature of wireless channels...
Target detection based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images has increasingly become a hot topic with the rapid development of UAVs and related technologies. UAV aerial images often feature a large number of small targets and complex backgrounds du...
The introduction of multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems into agriculture causes an increase in work efficiency and a decrease in operator fatigue. However, systems that are commonly used in agriculture perform tasks using a single UAV with...
This study examines the potential and limits of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) applicability for the monitoring of stream restoration in an urban environment. UAV imaging was used for long-term post-restoration monitoring of an urban stream. The...
This article deals with the design and creation of a tensometric measuring system to measure the parameters of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the quadcopter type. The system was designed to measure the total UAV thrust and the thrust of its indi...
To mitigate the technical challenges associated with small-object detection, feature degradation, and spatial-contextual misalignment in UAV-acquired imagery, this paper proposes UAV-DETR, an enhanced Transformer-based object detection model designed...
Recent advancements in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology have made them effective platforms for data capture in applications like environmental monitoring. UAVs, acting as mobile data ferries, can significantly improve ground network performan...
The paper presents the concept of mission planning for a short-range tactical class Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that recognizes targets using the sensors it has been equipped with. Tasks carried out by such systems are mainly associated with aerial...
Recently, developing multi-UAVs to cooperatively pursue a fast-moving target has become a research hotspot in the current world. Although deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has made a lot of achievements in the UAV pursuit game, there are still some p...
The development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies provides not only benefits but also threats. UAV technologies are developing faster than means of detecting and neutralizing them. Radar technology is one of the means of UAV detection whi...
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