This article introduces a ship defense strategy using a planar grid formation of multiple drones. We handle a scenario where a high-speed target with variable velocity heads towards the ship. The ship measures the position of the target in real time....
Over the past few years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones have been used for many applications. In certain applications like surveillance and emergency rescue operations, multiple drones work as a network to achieve the target in which any on...
Detection of unauthorized drones is mandatory for defense organizations and also for human life protection. Currently, detection methods based on thermal, video, radio frequency (RF) and acoustic signals exist. In previous research, we presented an a...
Integrating the relaying drone and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique into post-disaster emergency communications (PDEComs) is a promising way to accomplish efficient network recovery. Motivated by the above, by optimizing the drone thre...
The need for drone traffic control management has emerged as the demand for drones increased. Particularly, in order to control unauthorized drones, the systems to detect and track drones have to be developed. In this paper, we propose the drone posi...
With the development of drone technology, drones have been deployed in civilian and military fields for target surveillance. As the endurance of drones is limited, large-scale target surveillance missions encounter some challenges. Based on this moti...
Recent advancements in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), such as aerial drones, ground vehicles, and quadrupedal robots, have significantly impacted the fields of infrastructure inspection, emergency response, and surveillance. Many of these settings...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly known as drones, have been widely used in transmission line inspection and traffic patrolling due to their flexibility and environmental adaptability. To take advantage of drones and overcome their limited endurance...
In 5G-and-beyond (B5G) Internet of Things (IoT) networks, the integration of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) with millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques can significantly improve signal quality and increase n...
Navigating multiple drones autonomously in complex and unpredictable environments, such as forests, poses a significant challenge typically addressed by wireless communication for coordination. However, this approach falls short in situations with li...
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Drone audition techniques are helpful for listening to target sound sources from the sky, which can be used for human searching tasks in disaster sites. Among many techniques required for drone audition, sound source tracking is an essential techniqu...
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...
The application of wireless power transfer (WPT) technology in power replenishment for drones can help to solve problems such as the frequent manual plugging and unplugging of cables. A wireless power replenishment system for drones based on the tran...
These days, many attempts are being made worldwide to use drones for food delivery. Especially in the case of food, fast delivery is required, while maintaining its temperature and taste to the maximum. Therefore, using drones is suitable for food de...
This paper considers the multiple path planning problem to cover a region of interest using vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) drones. Drones are used not only to explore unknown areas but also to view areas from the air that are difficult for peopl...
In this study, we consider the combination of clustering and resource allocation based on game theory in ultra-dense networks that consist of multiple macrocells using massive multiple-input multiple-output and a vast number of randomly distributed d...
The drone arc routing problem (DARP) is one of the arc routing problems (ARPs) that has been studied by researchers recently. Unlike traditional ARPs, drones can travel directly between any two points in the graph. Due to the flexibility of drones, i...
With the rapid advancement of drone technology, the efficient distribution of drones has garnered significant attention. Central to this discourse is the energy consumption of drones, a critical metric for assessing energy-efficient distribution stra...
Demographic Information on threatened species is important to plan conservation actions. Due to their aquatic lifestyle, the subtle nature of hippo sexual dimorphism, and their occurrence in inaccessible areas, it is difficult to visually determine h...
The space–air–ground collaborative network can provide computing service for ground users in remote areas by deploying edge servers on satellites and high-altitude platform (HAP) drones. However, with the growing number of ground devices...
A technology to search for victims in disaster areas by localizing human-related sound sources, such as voices and emergency whistles, using a drone-embedded microphone array was researched. One of the challenges is the development of sound source lo...
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) and power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (PD-NOMA) have recently gained significant attention for enhancing the performance of next-generation wireless communications networks. More specifically, IRS can s...
Small unmanned aircraft vehicles (SUAVs) or drones are very useful for visual detection and tracking due to their efficiency in capturing scenes. This paper addresses the detection and tracking of moving pedestrians with an SUAV. The detection step c...
The drone has played an important role in security and surveillance. However, due to the limited computing power and energy resources, more efficient systems are required for surveillance tasks. In this paper, we address detection and tracking of mov...
Various port cities and authorities have established emission control areas (ECAs) to constrain ships’ fuel usage in a specified offshore geographical range. However, these ECA policies involve high costs and have low monitoring and regulation...
Drone aerial videos have immense potential in surveillance, rescue, agriculture, and urban planning. However, accurately tracking multiple objects in drone aerial videos faces challenges like occlusion, scale variations, and rapid motion. Current joi...
With the growing demand for delivery services and the escalating labor costs, much effort has been made to achieve faster and cost-efficient delivery. A promising emerging strategy involves the integration of autonomous delivery vehicles or drones in...
Drones, particularly those designed for indoor inspections, are widely used across various industries for tasks such as infrastructure monitoring, maintenance, and security. This study focuses on developing a robust collision avoidance system for tel...
In order to satisfy the large-scale access of visible light communication (VLC) users, as well as the demand for user request rate, the resource allocation problem of visible light communication with drone-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOM...
Due to the advantages of low cost and high flexibility, drones have been applied to urban surveillance, vegetation monitoring, and other fields with the need for coverage of regions. To expand UAVs’ coverage, we designed the Capsule Airport (CA...
Silage is the main feed in milk and ruminant meat production in Northern Europe. Novel drone-based remote sensing technology could be utilized in many phases of silage production, but advanced methods of utilizing these data are still developing. Gra...
Reinforcement learning (RL) has been shown to be effective in path planning. However, it usually requires exploring a sufficient number of state–action pairs, some of which may be unsafe when deployed in practical obstacle environments. To this...
In this paper, we aim to open up new perspectives in the field of autonomous aerial surveillance and target tracking systems, by exploring an alternative that, surprisingly, and to the best of the authors’ knowledge, has not been addressed in t...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are gaining momentum in many civil and military sectors. An example is represented by the logistics sector, where UAVs have been proven to be able to improve the efficiency of the process itself, as their cooperation w...
Recent research has shown an increasing interest in wireless power transfer (WPT) technology for drone batteries. The inconvenience of wired charging, especially for drones, is a huge obstacle. In this research project, a WPT platform was proposed by...
Logging and conversion of tropical forests in Southeast Asia have resulted in the expansion of landscapes containing a mosaic of habitats that may vary in their ability to sustain local biodiversity. However, the complexity of these landscapes makes...
The increasing demand for rapid and sustainable parcel delivery has motivated the exploration of innovative logistics systems that integrate drones with traditional ground vehicles. Among these, the single-truck, multiple-drone last-mile delivery con...
Traffic crashes and congestion generate high social and economic costs, yet traditional traffic monitoring methods, such as police patrols, fixed cameras, and helicopters, are costly, labor-intensive, and limited in spatial coverage. This paper prese...
The task of multi-object tracking via deep learning methods for UAV videos has become an important research direction. However, with some current multiple object tracking methods, the relationship between object detection and tracking is not well han...
Path planning is one of the most essential parts of autonomous navigation. Most existing works are based on the strategy of adjusting angles for planning. However, drones are susceptible to collisions in environments with densely distributed and high...
This study was conducted using a drone with advanced mobility to develop a unified sensor and communication system as a new platform for in situ atmospheric measurements. As a major cause of air pollution, particulate matter (PM) has been attracting...
This paper presents a new approach for estimating the motion state of a target that is maneuvered by an unknown human from observations. To improve the estimation accuracy, the proposed approach associates the recurring motion behaviors with human in...
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Rice is cataloged as one of the most widely cultivated crops globally, providing food for a large proportion of the global population. Integrating Geographic Information Systems (GISs), such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), into agricultural pract...
The sustainable management of agricultural systems is crucial for ensuring food security and environmental stewardship. This paper advances development in the field of sustainable agriculture by focusing on the application of plant protection drone t...
This paper proposes a novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted downlink hybrid free-space optics (FSO)/radio frequency (RF) space–air–ground integrated network (SAGIN) architecture, where the high altitude platform (HAP) co...
The rapid advancement of quadrotor systems has introduced significant challenges across multiple disciplines. Among these, fault tolerance and trajectory tracking in complex environments have long been recognized as critical challenges in quadrotor c...
In recent years, drones have been used in a wide range of fields, such as agriculture, transportation of goods, and security. Drones equipped with communication facilities are expected to play an active role as base stations in areas where ground bas...
The marsupial unmanned aircraft system (UAS) consists of a large parent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and multiple small children UAVs that can be launched and recovered in the air. The employment of marsupial UAS can expand the mission range of smal...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is one of the main means of information warfare, such as in battlefield cruises, reconnaissance, and military strikes. Rapid detection and accurate recognition of key targets in UAV images are the basis of subsequent mil...
The multirotor has the capability to capture distant objects. Because the computing resources of the multirotor are limited, efficiency is an important factor to consider. In this paper, multiple target tracking with a multirotor at a long distance (...
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