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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,451 Views
19 Pages

Devising a Distributed Co-Simulator for a Multi-UAV Network

  • Seongjoon Park,
  • Woong Gyu La,
  • Woonghee Lee and
  • Hwangnam Kim 

30 October 2020

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
794 Views
25 Pages

26 March 2025

Changes in the flight attitude of plant protection unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can lead to oscillations in the liquid level of their medicine tanks, which may affect operational accuracy and stability, and could even pose a threat to flight safet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
11,143 Views
26 Pages

Designing UAV Swarm Experiments: A Simulator Selection and Experiment Design Process

  • Abhishek Phadke,
  • F. Antonio Medrano,
  • Chandra N. Sekharan and
  • Tianxing Chu

23 August 2023

The rapid advancement and increasing number of applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarm systems have garnered significant attention in recent years. These systems offer a multitude of uses and demonstrate great potential in diverse fields,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,274 Views
17 Pages

HIL Flight Simulator for VTOL-UAV Pilot Training Using X-Plane

  • Daniel Aláez,
  • Xabier Olaz,
  • Manuel Prieto,
  • Pablo Porcellinis and
  • Jesús Villadangos

16 December 2022

With the increasing popularity of vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicles (VTOL UAVs), a new problem arises: pilot training. Most conventional pilot training simulators are designed for full-scale aircrafts, while most UAV simulators a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,217 Views
21 Pages

11 June 2025

In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted base station (MBS) networks, user equipment (UE) experiences dynamic channel variations because of the mobility of the UAV and the changing weather conditions. In order to overcome the degradation in the quali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,602 Views
15 Pages

A Real-Time Simulator for Navigation in GNSS-Denied Environments of UAV Swarms

  • He Zhang,
  • Cunxiao Miao,
  • Linghao Zhang,
  • Yunpeng Zhang,
  • Yufeng Li and
  • Kaiwen Fang

13 October 2023

Accurate localization is the foundation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm applications in the global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-denied environment. However, the implementation of UAV formation in the real world is costly and time-consumi...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,997 Views
4 Pages

Dynamic Simulation of a UAV Moving on Launcher

  • Wiroj Homsup,
  • Jeadsada Pinyochon,
  • Pitikorn Narathee,
  • Supita Weng and
  • Nuttaka Homsup

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,153 Views
27 Pages

Modeling and Simulation of an Octorotor UAV with Manipulator Arm

  • Edmundo Javier Ollervides-Vazquez,
  • Pablo A. Tellez-Belkotosky,
  • Victor Santibañez,
  • Erik G. Rojo-Rodriguez,
  • Luis A. Reyes-Osorio and
  • Octavio Garcia-Salazar

28 February 2023

In this paper, the conceptual design, modeling, and simulation are proposed for an octorotor UAV with a manipulator arm. The conceptual design of the octorotor UAV with a manipulator arm is developed, and for the study and analysis, the design is imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,240 Views
14 Pages

Design and Implementation of Simulation System for Multi-UAV Mission

  • Duo Qi,
  • Ming Cai,
  • Zhiqiang Jiao,
  • Xingyu He,
  • Xiaoyue Ren and
  • Yiming Hou

23 January 2023

Multi-UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) mission collaboration is one of the current research hotspots in automation, artificial intelligence, and other fields. The difficulty and high cost of real flight verification have led to the problem that related...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
14,323 Views
24 Pages

A Survey on Open-Source Simulation Platforms for Multi-Copter UAV Swarms

  • Ziming Chen,
  • Jinjin Yan,
  • Bing Ma,
  • Kegong Shi,
  • Qiang Yu and
  • Weijie Yuan

Simulation platforms are critical and indispensable tools for application developments of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) because the UAVs are generally costly, have certain requirements for the test environment, and need professional licensed operat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,436 Views
16 Pages

An End-to-End UAV Simulation Platform for Visual SLAM and Navigation

  • Shengyang Chen,
  • Weifeng Zhou,
  • An-Shik Yang,
  • Han Chen,
  • Boyang Li and
  • Chih-Yung Wen

19 January 2022

Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (v-SLAM) and navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are receiving increasing attention in both research and education. However, extensive physical testing can be expensive and time-consuming due to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
762 Views
19 Pages

2 December 2025

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as mobile sensor platforms has grown significantly in recent years, including applications where drones emulate radar targets or serve as dynamic measurement systems. This paper presents a novel approach to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,383 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
1,012 Views
19 Pages

Field Schedule of UAV-Assisted Pollination for Hybrid Rice Based on CFD–DPM Coupled Simulation

  • Le Long,
  • Peng Fang,
  • Jinlong Lin,
  • Muhua Liu,
  • Xiongfei Chen,
  • Liping Xiao,
  • Yonghui Li and
  • Yihan Zhou

22 August 2025

UAV pollination holds significant promise for enhancing hybrid rice seed production, yet the mechanisms of pollen diffusion under UAV downwash and the lack of theoretical guidance for operational parameter optimization remain critical challenges. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,451 Views
25 Pages

1 September 2023

The rise in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) usage has opened exciting possibilities but has also introduced risks, particularly in aviation, with instances of UAVs flying dangerously close to commercial airplanes. The potential for accidents underscore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,814 Views
20 Pages

17 January 2023

The plant protection unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) scheduling model is of great significance to improve the operation income of UAV plant protection teams and ensure the quality of the operation. The simulated annealing algorithm (SA) is often used i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,181 Views
33 Pages

22 May 2025

The traditional artificial potential field (APF) method exhibits limitations in its force distribution: excessive attraction when UAVs are far from the target may cause collisions with obstacles, while insufficient attraction near the goal often resu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
7,205 Views
16 Pages

With the extensive application of 3D maps, acquiring high-quality images with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for precise 3D reconstruction has become a prominent topic of study. In this research, we proposed a coverage path planning method for UAVs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,851 Views
15 Pages

Performance Characterization of the UAV Chemical Application Based on CFD Simulation

  • Hang Zhu,
  • Hongze Li,
  • Cui Zhang,
  • Junxing Li and
  • Huihui Zhang

Battery-powered multi-rotor UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) have been employed as chemical applicators in agriculture for small fields in China. Major challenges in spraying include reducing the influence of environmental factors and appropriate chem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,924 Views
22 Pages

30 April 2024

This research investigates flood susceptibility in the mid- and downstream areas of Taiwan’s Wu River, historically prone to flooding in central Taiwan. The study integrates the Hydrologic Engineering Center—Hydrologic Modeling System (HE...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,429 Views
25 Pages

3 July 2024

Automated progress monitoring of construction sites using cameras has been proposed in recent years. Although previous studies have tried to identify the most informative camera views according to 4D BIM to optimize installation plans, video collecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,405 Views
19 Pages

TerrAInav Sim: An Open-Source Simulation of UAV Aerial Imaging from Map-Based Data

  • Seyedeh Parisa Dajkhosh,
  • Peter M. Le,
  • Orges Furxhi and
  • Eddie L. Jacobs

18 April 2025

Capturing real-world aerial images for vision-based navigation (VBN) is challenging due to limited availability and conditions that make it nearly impossible to access all desired images from any location. The complexity increases when multiple locat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,049 Views
29 Pages

11 September 2021

Acknowledged guidelines and standards such as those formerly governing project planning in analogue aerial photogrammetry are still missing in UAV photogrammetry. The reasons are many, from a great variety of projects goals to the number of parameter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
557 Views
15 Pages

Construction of a CFD Simulation and Prediction Model for Pesticide Droplet Drift in Agricultural UAV Spraying

  • Qingqing Zhou,
  • Songchao Zhang,
  • Meng Huang,
  • Chen Cai,
  • Haidong Zhang,
  • Yuxuan Jiao and
  • Xinyu Xue

5 January 2026

This study employed a combined approach of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), numerical simulations, and wind tunnel tests to investigate droplet drift characteristics and develop prediction models in order to address the issues of low pesticide uti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,517 Views
25 Pages

MCS-Sim: A Photo-Realistic Simulator for Multi-Camera UAV Visual Perception Research

  • Qiming Qi,
  • Guoyan Wang,
  • Yonglei Pan,
  • Hongqi Fan and
  • Biao Li

18 September 2025

Multi-camera systems (MCSs) are pivotal in aviation surveillance and autonomous navigation due to their wide coverage and high-resolution sensing. However, challenges such as complex setup, time-consuming data acquisition, and costly testing hinder r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,199 Views
21 Pages

7 December 2022

Rockfall simulations constitute the first step toward hazard assessments and can guide future rockfall prevention efforts. In this work, we assess the impact of digital elevation model (DEM) resolution on the accuracy of numerical rockfall simulation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
14,722 Views
32 Pages

A Vertical Take-Off and Landing-Plane (VTOL-Plane) is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that combines multirotor and fixed-wing configurations. It has a good cruise range compared to a VTOL vehicle. Furthermore, it can take-off and land vertically. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,241 Views
23 Pages

24 August 2023

The vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is extensively employed in various sectors. To ensure adherence to design specifications and mission requirements, it is vital to verify flight control and system performance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,972 Views
21 Pages

Landslide Hazard Prediction Based on UAV Remote Sensing and Discrete Element Model Simulation—Case from the Zhuangguoyu Landslide in Northern China

  • Guangming Li,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Yuhua Zhang,
  • Zizheng Guo,
  • Yuanbo Liu,
  • Xinyong Zhou,
  • Zhanxu Guo,
  • Wei Guo,
  • Lihang Wan and
  • Jun He
  • + 2 authors

19 October 2024

Rainfall-triggered landslides generally pose a high risk due to their sudden initiation, massive impact force, and energy. It is, therefore, necessary to perform accurate and timely hazard prediction for these landslides. Most studies have focused on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,292 Views
33 Pages

15 July 2021

Crowd size estimation is a challenging problem, especially when the crowd is spread over a significant geographical area. It has applications in monitoring of rallies and demonstrations and in calculating the assistance requirements in humanitarian d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,207 Views
17 Pages

28 April 2022

In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry, the qualities of three-dimensional (3D) models, including ground sample distance (GSD) and shaded areas, are strongly affected by flight planning. However, during flight planning, the quality of the ou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,628 Views
35 Pages

The Application of UAVs in the Evaluation of Thermal Comfort Levels in Buildings Equipped with Internal Greenhouses

  • Maria Inês Conceição,
  • Eusébio Conceição,
  • António Grilo,
  • Meysam Basiri and
  • Hazim Awbi

20 September 2023

A greenhouse is used to improve thermal comfort (TC) levels for its occupants in winter conditions using solar radiation, which involves low energy consumption. The aim of this research is the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the eva...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,244 Views
16 Pages

18 June 2019

Open-source aerospace simulation packages often lack unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) models, limiting the study of their interaction with other elements in the airspace. These events, which are a consequence of encounters between manned and unmanned...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
807 Views
9 Pages

Research on Real-Time Mission Planning for Multi-UAV

  • Jingzhi Bi,
  • Wei Huang and
  • Maihui Cui

28 February 2025

With the wide application of UAVs in various industries, solving the complex multi-UAV multi-target problem becomes crucial. The assignment and task planning of multi-UAV and multi-target usually need to consider two scenarios. First, before the UAV...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,363 Views
20 Pages

Probability Maps and Search Strategies for Automated UAV Search in the Wadden Sea

  • Ludmila Moshagen,
  • Carlos Castelar Wembers and
  • Georg Schildbach

15 September 2025

Search and rescue (SAR) operations with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been the subject of numerous scientific studies. Their effectiveness relies on intelligent and efficient path planning. Not only can they save expensive resources, they can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,375 Views
33 Pages

16 June 2025

Path planning in multi-agent UAV swarms is a crucial issue that involves avoiding collisions in dynamic, obstacle-filled environments while consuming the least amount of time and energy possible. This work comprehensively evaluates reinforcement lear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
12,126 Views
20 Pages

25 September 2023

With the advantages of long-range flight and high payload capacity, large fixed-wing UAVs are often used in anti-terrorism missions, disaster surveillance, and emergency supply delivery. In the existing research, there is little research on the 3D mo...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,392 Views
11 Pages

24 November 2023

This article presents the method of identifying dynamic models for different flight states of a rotary-wing UAV for simulations. Experimental flights with real-life UAVs were conducted to obtain data necessary for identification. Dynamic models were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,436 Views
11 Pages

9 November 2019

In this paper, the aerodynamic performance of a Hex-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with different rotational speeds (1500–2300 RPM) considering the horizontal airflow conditions is analyzed by both simulations and experiments. A low-speed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,234 Views
26 Pages

Study on the Aeroelastic Characteristics of a Large-Span Joined-Wing Solar-Powered UAV

  • Xinyu Tong,
  • Xiaoping Zhu,
  • Zhou Zhou,
  • Junlei Sun,
  • Jian Zhang and
  • Qiang Wang

2 October 2025

When a joined-wing configuration is applied to the design of solar-powered UAVs, the increasing span amplifies aeroelastic effects, while structure complexity poses greater challenges to computational effectiveness during the conceptual design phase....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,065 Views
15 Pages

This paper proposes the construction of a real-time simulation testing environment for the electric propulsion systems of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using a real-time simulator and KDECAN communication equipment. The proposed real-time simulatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,336 Views
24 Pages

9 December 2024

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become essential tools across various sectors due to their versatility and advanced capabilities in autonomy, perception, and networking. Despite over a decade of experimental efforts in multi-UAV systems, substan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,561 Views
23 Pages

A Comprehensive Design and Experiment of a Biplane Quadrotor Tail-Sitter UAV

  • Zheng Qiao,
  • Dong Wang,
  • Jiahui Xu,
  • Xinbiao Pei,
  • Wei Su,
  • Dong Wang and
  • Yue Bai

26 April 2023

Tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are promising vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) UAV suitable for multi-missions but the road to the commercialization of tail-sitter UAVs is tortuous. This paper aims to provide a systematic design method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,653 Views
25 Pages

Air Route Design of Multi-Rotor UAVs for Urban Air Mobility

  • Shan Li,
  • Honghai Zhang,
  • Zhuolun Li and
  • Hao Liu

18 October 2024

UAVs will present significant air traffic in the urban airspace in the future, which brings new challenges to urban air traffic management and control. This paper presents an air route design scheme for multi-rotor UAVs in urban airspace to enable UA...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,048 Views
12 Pages

MIMO Relaying UAVs Operating in Public Safety Scenarios

  • Joseanne Viana,
  • Francisco Cercas,
  • Américo Correia,
  • Rui Dinis and
  • Pedro Sebastião

26 April 2021

Methods to implement communication in natural and humanmade disasters have been widely discussed in the scientific community. Scientists believe that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) relays will play a critical role in 5G public safety communications...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,256 Views
17 Pages

Aerodynamic Optimization Design of an Orthogonal Octo-Rotor UAV in a Hovering State

  • Yao Lei,
  • Hengxing Yang,
  • Jifu Hu,
  • Xuan Li,
  • Jiafu Qiu and
  • Yuanfeng Zhang

27 March 2025

This paper presents a novel orthogonal octo-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and addresses the aerodynamics of the UAV with varied rotor spacing by both numerical simulations and experiments. Compared with the traditional planar multirotor UAV, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,808 Views
19 Pages

Azimuthal Solar Synchronization and Aerodynamic Neuro-Optimization: An Empirical Study on Slime-Mold-Inspired Neural Networks for Solar UAV Range Optimization

  • Graheeth Hazare,
  • Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan,
  • Dariusz Mika,
  • Farah Syazwani Shahar,
  • Grzegorz Skorulski,
  • Marek Nowakowski,
  • Andriy Holovatyy,
  • Ile Mircheski and
  • Wojciech Giernacki

13 September 2024

This study introduces a novel methodology for enhancing the efficiency of solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through azimuthal solar synchronization and aerodynamic neuro-optimization, leveraging the principles of slime mold neural network...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,322 Views
22 Pages

Design and Experimental Study on Vibration Reduction of an UAV Lidar Using Rubber Material

  • Jia Fu,
  • Guangming Liu,
  • Chaohui Fan,
  • Ziyang Liu and
  • Haitao Luo

24 November 2022

Rubber shock absorbers are widely used to reduce vibration in aerospace load devices due to their high damping characteristics. However, due to the material nonlinearity of rubber and high temperature, the accurate numerical simulation and practical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,760 Views
26 Pages

VR-Supported Analysis of UAV—Magnetic Launcher’s Cart System

  • Anna Sibilska-Mroziewicz,
  • Edyta Ładyżyńska-Kozdraś and
  • Krzysztof Sibilski

15 May 2023

The subject of the research is a model of a magnetic launcher, which is an innovative alternative to commercially occurring unmanned aircraft launchers (UAV). As the take-off is an energy-demanding phase of the flight; therefore, abandoning the power...

  • Article
  • Open Access
668 Views
23 Pages

9 January 2026

With the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, ensuring safe unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations over large public events has become a critical issue for urban air mobility. This study proposes a dynamic risk identification and mitigation fr...

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