This paper presents a novel methodology to localise Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The UGVs are assumed to be operating in a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environment. The localisation of the...
With the advent and rapid growth of automation, unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have emerged as a crucial technology, with applications spanning various domains, from agriculture to surveillance, logistics, and military operations. Alongside this sur...
The heterogeneous unmanned system, which is composed of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), has been broadly applied in many domains. Collaborative fault diagnosis (CFD) among UAVs and UGVs has become a key technology i...
The collaborative execution of tasks by multiple Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) has become a development trend in the field of unmanned systems. Existing collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) frameworks mainly employ methods bas...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly popular in the civil field, and building inspection is one of the most promising applications. In a rural area, the UAVs are assigned to inspect the surface of buildings, and an unmanned ground...
Many fields, where human health and life are at risk, are increasingly utilizing mobile robots and UGVs (Unmanned Ground Vehicles). They typically operate in teleoperation mode (control based on the projected image, outside the operator’s direc...
The article explored the potential for enhancing the off-road mobility of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) equipped with a hydrostatic drive system. The analysis showed that effectively overcoming rough or soft terrain demands a slip limitation. In the...
Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), which boast high-resolution imaging and agile maneuvering capabilities, are widely utilized in military scenarios and generate a vast amount of image data that can be l...
In this paper, a novel UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) for precision agriculture, named “Agri.q,” is presented. The Agri.q has a multiple degrees of freedom positioning mechanism and it is equipped with a robotic arm and vision sensors, whi...
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are making more and more progress in many application scenarios in recent years, such as exploring unknown wild terrain, working in precision agriculture and serving in emergency rescue. Due to the complex ground condi...
With the rapid development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems, the autonomous landing of a UAV on a moving Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) has received extensive attention as a key technology. At present, this technology is confronted with such p...
In this article, we present a versatile gas detector that can operate on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). The device has six electrochemical modules, which can be selected to measure specific gases, according to the...
With the accelerated development of smart cities, the concept of a “smart industrial park” in which unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have wide application has entered the industrial field of vision. When faced with multiple tasks and heter...
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) have attracted much attention in crop phenotype monitoring due to their lightweight and flexibility. This paper describes a new UGV equipped with an electric slide rail and point cloud high-throughput acquisition and ph...
The existence of information silos between vehicles and parking lots means that Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) repeatedly drive to seek available parking slots, resulting in wasted resources, time consumption and traffic congestion, especially in hi...
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have been widely used in security patrol. The existence of two potential opponents, the malicious teammate (cooperative) and the hostile observer (adversarial), highlights the importance of privacy-preserving planning...
This paper presents a collaborative hazard-detection system that pairs a UAV running YOLOv9 for rapid aerial scanning with a UGV running Faster R-CNN for precise ground-level confirmation. The pipeline exploits complementary strengths, fast wide-area...
This study designs a navigation and landing scheme for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to autonomously land on an arbitrarily moving unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) in GPS-denied environments based on vision, ultra-wideband (UWB) and system informatio...
Aiming at the problem of difficult obstacle avoidance for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in complex dynamic environments, an improved A*-APF algorithm (BA*-MAPF algorithm) is proposed in this paper. Addressing the A* algorithm’s challenges of...
In recent years, UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)-UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) collaborative systems have played a crucial role in emergency disaster rescue. To improve rescue efficiency, heterogeneous network and task chain methods are introduced to c...
The autonomous navigation of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in unstructured environments, such as agricultural or forestry settings, has been the subject of extensive research by various investigators. The navigation capability of a UGV in unstructu...
3D object detection and tracking technology are increasingly being adopted in unmanned ground vehicles, as robust perception systems significantly improve the obstacle avoidance performance of a UGV. However, most existing algorithms depend heavily o...
In several MIMO system applications, the deviations of some output performance variables from their nominal values are required to be controlled independently, while the other performance variables are required to remain at their nominal value. This...
Realizing autonomous inspection, such as that of power distribution lines, through unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems is a key research domain in robotics. In particular, the use of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles to execute the tasks of a...
As Industry 4.0 advances, emerging use cases demand 5G NR networks capable of delivering high uplink throughput and ultra-low downlink latency. This study evaluates a 5G link between a LiDAR-equipped unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) and its control unit...
Legged climbing unmanned ground vehicles (LC-UGVs) possess obstacle avoidance and wall transition capabilities, allowing them to move in 3D environments. Existing navigation methods for legged UGVs are only suitable for ground locomotion rather than...
Although the actual use of delivery robots like UGVs and UAVs has not yet been generalized, they are also used for additional purposes like fun and enjoyment in some limited areas such as tourist destinations. In this study, an optimal algorithm is p...
Relative localization (RL) and circumnavigation is a highly challenging problem that is crucial for the safe flight of multi-UAVs (multiple unmanned aerial vehicles). Most methods depend on some external infrastructure for positioning. However, in so...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have rapidly evolved, becoming integral to various applications such as environmental monitoring, disaster response, and precision agriculture. This paper provides a comprehensive re...
This systematic review evaluates the integration of advanced radar technologies into unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), focusing on their role in enhancing autonomy in defense, transportation, and exploration. A comprehensive search across IEEE Xplore,...
Air-ground coordination systems are usually composed of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGV). In such a system, UAVs can utilize their much more perceptive information to plan the path for UGVs. However, the correctness a...
Robotic transport missions serve a variety of valuable purposes within similar contexts. These include delivering packages in urban or remote areas, dispatching supplies to disaster or conflict zones, and facilitating delivery operations. In such a c...
The precise localization of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in industrial parks without prior GPS measurements presents a significant challenge. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques can address this challenge by capturing environme...
In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled data collection systems, situations where sensor nodes (SNs) cannot upload their data successfully to the UAV may exist, due to factors such as SNs’ insufficient energy and the UAV’s minimum flight...
Addressing the challenge of acquiring high-precision leader Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) pose information in real time for communication-denied leader–follower formations, this study proposed Pillar-Bin, a 3D object detection algorithm based o...
Teleoperation is widely used for unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) navigation in military and civilian fields. However, the human operator has to limit speed to ensure the handling stability because of the low resolution of video, limited field of view a...
In this paper, we propose an adaptive fuzzy pure pursuit trajectory tracking algorithm for autonomous unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), addressing the challenges of accurate and stable navigation in complex environments. Traditional pure pursuit metho...
Moving on paths or trails present in natural environments makes autonomous navigation of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) simpler and safer. In this sense, aerial photographs provide a lot of information of wide areas that can be employed to detect pat...
The generalization capability of the decision-making modules in unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) is critical for their safe deployment in unseen environments. Prevailing evaluation methods, which rely on aggregated performance over static benchmark se...
The paper presents a study of the performance and development of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), establishing mathematical and numerical models of the chassis system. The model analysis is performed by 3D software package SolidWorks 2018 with finite...
Current operations involving Dismantling and Decommissioning (D&D) in nuclear and other harsh environments rely on manual inspection and assessment of the sites, exposing human operators to potentially dangerous situations. This work presents a r...
Recently, deep learning methods and multisensory fusion have been applied to address odometry challenges in unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). In this paper, we propose an end-to-end visual-lidar-inertial odometry framework to enhance the accuracy of p...
Accurate trajectory tracking is a key requirement in unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) operating in autonomous driving, mobile robotics, and industrial automation. In wireless Time-Sensitive Networking (WTSN) scenarios, trajectory accuracy strongly dep...
This paper presents the use of deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) for autonomous navigation of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) with an onboard three-dimensional (3D) Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensor in off-road environments. For training, bo...
SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) based on lidar is an important method for UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) localization in real time under GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System)-denied situations. However, dynamic objects in real-world s...
Uneven terrains and complex obstacles in off-road environments present significant challenges to the stability and safety of vehicle path planning. This paper presents a hierarchical DRL-DWA path planning framework for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs)...
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in agriculture face challenges in navigating complex environments due to the presence of dynamic obstacles. This causes several practical problems including mission delays, higher energy consumption, and potential safe...
Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) are devices capable of performing basic working movements without the operator being in their immediate working environment. Their capabilities include but are not limited to the perception of the environment with the u...
Collaborative autonomous landing of a quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) on a moving Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) presents challenges due to the need for accurate real-time tracking of the UGV and the adjustment for the landing policy. To addre...
The purpose of this study was to explore a novel approach to power hybridization in relation to its effectiveness in an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). This hybridization method is modeled after the power distribution methods found in living organisms...
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