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Drones, Volume 6, Issue 8

2022 August - 35 articles

Cover Story: Advanced Air Mobility (UAM) is a concept of transportation system that aims to integrate new types of aircraft in complex airspaces, such as urban areas. This concept proposes the implementation of aerial highways, the so-called UAM Corridors, where manned and unmanned aircraft would perform their operations. One of the main challenges for the implementation of UAM Corridors is the development of a ‘Detect and Avoid’ system. During operations, unmanned aircraft must be able to detect the presence of other airspace users to adapt their behavior and guarantee the safety of operations. In this work, a LiDAR sensor was simulated to replicate the onboard detection capabilities of this technology. In addition, a Second-Order Cone Program was implemented to calculate avoidance trajectories if a risk of collision is detected. Different case studies were developed to validate the concept. View this paper
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Articles (35)

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,530 Views
20 Pages

Real-Time Survivor Detection System in SaR Missions Using Robots

  • Kaushlendra Sharma,
  • Rajesh Doriya,
  • Saroj Kumar Pandey,
  • Ankit Kumar,
  • G. R. Sinha and
  • Pankaj Dadheech

22 August 2022

This paper considers the issue of the search and rescue operation of humans after natural or man-made disasters. This problem arises after several calamities, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and explosions. It usually takes hours to locate the survi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,043 Views
12 Pages

A Faster Approach to Quantify Large Wood Using UAVs

  • Daniel Sanhueza,
  • Lorenzo Picco,
  • Alberto Paredes and
  • Andrés Iroumé

22 August 2022

Large wood (LW, log at least 1 m-long and 0.1 m in diameter) in river channels has great relevance in fluvial environments. Historically, the most used approach to estimate the volume of LW has been through field surveys, measuring all the pieces of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,971 Views
15 Pages

22 August 2022

The study is devoted to the creation of modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), the most efficient from economic and environmental points of view. In connection with the vital need to switch to environmentally friendly vehicles, this research analyzes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,356 Views
18 Pages

Weld Seam Identification and Tracking of Inspection Robot Based on Deep Learning Network

  • Jie Li,
  • Beibei Li,
  • Linjie Dong,
  • Xingsong Wang and
  • Mengqian Tian

20 August 2022

The weld seams of large spherical tank equipment should be regularly inspected. Autonomous inspection robots can greatly enhance inspection efficiency and save costs. However, the accurate identification and tracking of weld seams by inspection robot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Citations
5,978 Views
15 Pages

20 August 2022

With the development of UAV technology, the task allocation problem of multiple UAVs is remarkable, but most of these existing heuristic methods are easy to fall into the problem of local optimization. In view of this limitation, deep transfer reinfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,062 Views
18 Pages

Position Periodic Control of Two Rotating Airplanes

  • José Antonio Bautista-Medina,
  • Rogelio Lozano and
  • Antonio Osorio-Cordero

19 August 2022

The increasing development in aerial vehicles shows a wide range of configurations for different requirements. Many of them combine conventional configurations’ features to take advantage of their qualities, such as performing a cruise flight a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,016 Views
17 Pages

Design of the System for Measuring UAV Parameters

  • Jozef Novotňák,
  • Martin Fiľko,
  • Pavol Lipovský and
  • Miroslav Šmelko

18 August 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,257 Views
15 Pages

Persistent Charging System for Crazyflie Platform

  • Ngoc Phi Nguyen,
  • Bo Hye Lee,
  • Nguyen Xuan-Mung,
  • Le Nhu Ngoc Thanh Ha,
  • Han Sol Jeong,
  • Seok Tae Lee and
  • Sung Kyung Hong

18 August 2022

Nowadays, quadcopters are used widely in different applications, but their flight time is limited during operation. In this paper, a precision landing method based on a Kalman filter is proposed for an autonomous indoor persistent drone system that a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,180 Views
21 Pages

Design and Analysis of a Deployment Mechanism with Clearance Compensation for High Stiffness Missile Wings

  • Yong Zhao,
  • Shang Chen,
  • Yimeng Gao,
  • Honghao Yue,
  • Xiaoze Yang,
  • Tongle Lu and
  • Fei Yang

17 August 2022

The deployment performance of the unfolded wing determines whether the winged missiles can fly normally after being launched, infecting the attack performance of the winged missiles. The paper proposes a new deployment mechanism with clearance elimin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,977 Views
11 Pages

Mission Planning for Low Altitude Aerial Drones during Water Sampling

  • Michael E. Hodgson,
  • Nikolaos I. Vitzilaios,
  • Michael L. Myrick,
  • Tammi L. Richardson,
  • Matt Duggan,
  • Kazi Ragib I. Sanim,
  • Michail Kalaitzakis,
  • Bhanuprakash Kosaraju,
  • Caitlyn English and
  • Zechariah Kitzhaber

17 August 2022

Mission planning for small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) as a platform for remote sensors goes beyond the traditional issues of selecting a sensor, flying altitude/speed, spatial resolution, and the date/time of operation. Unlike purchasing or contr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,837 Views
14 Pages

A Neural Network Approach to Estimate Transient Aerodynamic Properties of a Flapping Wing System

  • Bluest Lan,
  • You-Jun Lin,
  • Yu-Hsiang Lai,
  • Chia-Hung Tang and
  • Jing-Tang Yang

17 August 2022

Understanding the causal impacts among various parameters is essential for designing micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). The simulation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) provides us with a technique to calculate aerodynamic forces precisely. However, e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,171 Views
21 Pages

16 August 2022

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology are becoming very popular in the era of Industry 4.0, especially for retail, logistics, and warehouse management. However, the autonomous navigation for UAVs in indo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,483 Views
17 Pages

15 August 2022

Simulation plays a critical role in the development of UAV navigation systems. In the context of celestial navigation, the ability to simulate celestial imagery is particularly important, due to the logistical and legal constraints of conducting UAV...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,731 Views
19 Pages

12 August 2022

This paper proposes an adaptive neural-network-based nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode (NN-NFTSMC) approach to address the trajectory tracking control problem of a quadrotor in the presence of model uncertainties and external disturbances. First...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,345 Views
21 Pages

12 August 2022

Production agriculture has recently witnessed exponential growth in the use of UAS technology to obtain site-specific, real-time spectral reflectance data for the management of spatial and temporal variability in agricultural ecosystems. The integrat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,379 Views
32 Pages

A Wind-Tunnel Assessment of Parameters That May Impact Spray Drift during UAV Pesticide Application

  • Shanique Grant,
  • Jeff Perine,
  • Farah Abi-Akar,
  • Timothy Lane,
  • Brenna Kent,
  • Christopher Mohler,
  • Chris Scott and
  • Amy Ritter

11 August 2022

The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of varying wind speeds (1.5, 3.0, and 4.5 m/s), initial payload volumes (2 and 10 L), and nozzle droplet size characteristics (fine, medium, coarse) on drift during spray applications from an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,322 Views
34 Pages

11 August 2022

In some specific conditions, UAVs are required to obtain comprehensive information of an area or to operate in the area in an all-round way. In this case, the coverage path planning (CPP) is required. This paper proposes a solution to solve the probl...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,417 Views
14 Pages

The HDIN Dataset: A Real-World Indoor UAV Dataset with Multi-Task Labels for Visual-Based Navigation

  • Yingxiu Chang,
  • Yongqiang Cheng,
  • John Murray,
  • Shi Huang and
  • Guangyi Shi

11 August 2022

Supervised learning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs) visual-based navigation raises the need for reliable datasets with multi-task labels (e.g., classification and regression labels). However, current public datasets have limitations: (a) Outdoor d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,838 Views
13 Pages

Multimodal Fusion of Voice and Gesture Data for UAV Control

  • Xiaojia Xiang,
  • Qin Tan,
  • Han Zhou,
  • Dengqing Tang and
  • Jun Lai

11 August 2022

To enable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operators to efficiently and intuitively convey their commands to a swarm of UAVs, we propose the use of natural and human-centric input modalities, such as voices and gestures. This paper addresses the fusion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,323 Views
15 Pages

10 August 2022

This article discusses the use of drones in Hungary and considers their future penetration, based on the responses to a nationally representative 2021 questionnaire among 200 large-scale farmers engaged in precision farming and in crop production. Bo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,442 Views
11 Pages

Testing Drones as a Tool for Surveying Lizards

  • Joanne M. Monks,
  • Harriet P. Wills and
  • Carey D. Knox

9 August 2022

A lack of effective methods for sampling lizards in terrain that is inaccessible to human observers limits our knowledge of their ecology and conservation needs. Drones are increasingly being used in wildlife monitoring, but their potential use for s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,937 Views
25 Pages

9 August 2022

Existing counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) defensive mechanisms rely heavily on radio frequency (RF) jamming techniques that require a large amount of energy to operate. The effects of RF jamming result in undesirable consequences, such as the j...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,023 Views
10 Pages

Effects of Flight and Smoothing Parameters on the Detection of Taxus and Olive Trees with UAV-Borne Imagery

  • Sam Ottoy,
  • Nikolaos Tziolas,
  • Koenraad Van Meerbeek,
  • Ilias Aravidis,
  • Servaas Tilkin,
  • Michail Sismanis,
  • Dimitris Stavrakoudis,
  • Ioannis Z. Gitas,
  • George Zalidis and
  • Alain De Vocht

8 August 2022

Recent technical and jurisdictional advances, together with the availability of low-cost platforms, have facilitated the implementation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in individual tree detection (ITD) applications. UAV-based photogrammetry or st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,459 Views
23 Pages

Multi-UAV Collaboration to Survey Tibetan Antelopes in Hoh Xil

  • Rui Huang,
  • Han Zhou,
  • Tong Liu and
  • Hanlin Sheng

6 August 2022

Reducing the total mission time is essential in wildlife surveys owing to the dynamic movement of animals throughout their migrating environment and potentially extreme changes in weather. This paper proposed a multi-UAV path planning method for coun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,705 Views
9 Pages

Preliminary Clinical Validation of a Drone-Based Delivery System in Urban Scenarios Using a Smart Capsule for Blood

  • Fabrizio Niglio,
  • Paola Comite,
  • Andrea Cannas,
  • Angela Pirri and
  • Giuseppe Tortora

5 August 2022

In this paper, we report on the validation of an autonomous drone-based delivery system equipped with a smart capsule for the transportation of blood products in urban areas. The influence of some thermo-mechanical parameters, such as altitude, accel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,117 Views
11 Pages

3 August 2022

Asbestos is a class 1 carcinogen, and it has become clear that it harms the human body. Its use has been banned in many countries, and now the investigation and removal of installed asbestos has become a very important social issue. Accordingly, many...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
5,555 Views
19 Pages

Wildfire Monitoring Based on Energy Efficient Clustering Approach for FANETS

  • Salil Bharany,
  • Sandeep Sharma,
  • Jaroslav Frnda,
  • Mohammed Shuaib,
  • Muhammad Irfan Khalid,
  • Saddam Hussain,
  • Jawaid Iqbal and
  • Syed Sajid Ullah

2 August 2022

Forest fires are a significant threat to the ecological system’s stability. Several attempts have been made to detect forest fires using a variety of approaches, including optical fire sensors, and satellite-based technologies, all of which hav...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,371 Views
21 Pages

A Four-Dimensional Space-Time Automatic Obstacle Avoidance Trajectory Planning Method for Multi-UAV Cooperative Formation Flight

  • Jie Zhang,
  • Hanlin Sheng,
  • Qian Chen,
  • Han Zhou,
  • Bingxiong Yin,
  • Jiacheng Li and
  • Mengmeng Li

31 July 2022

Trajectory planning of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is the basis for them to form the formation flight. By considering trajectory planning of multiple UAVs in formation flight in three-dimensional space, a trajectory planning method in fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,132 Views
14 Pages

3D AQI Mapping Data Assessment of Low-Altitude Drone Real-Time Air Pollution Monitoring

  • Sarun Duangsuwan,
  • Phoowadon Prapruetdee,
  • Mallika Subongkod and
  • Katanyoo Klubsuwan

29 July 2022

Air pollution primarily originates from substances that are directly emitted from natural or anthropogenic processes, such as carbon monoxide (CO) gas emitted in vehicle exhaust or sulfur dioxide (SO2) released from factories. However, a major air po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,831 Views
14 Pages

Energy Efficient Transmission Design for NOMA Backscatter-Aided UAV Networks with Imperfect CSI

  • Saad AlJubayrin,
  • Fahd N. Al-Wesabi,
  • Hadeel Alsolai,
  • Mesfer Al Duhayyim,
  • Mohamed K. Nour,
  • Wali Ullah Khan,
  • Asad Mahmood,
  • Khaled Rabie and
  • Thokozani Shongwe

28 July 2022

The recent combination of ambient backscatter communication (ABC) with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has shown great potential for connecting large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) in future unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks. The basic ide...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,857 Views
8 Pages

Development of a Fixed-Wing Drone System for Aerial Insect Sampling

  • Margarita Mulero-Pázmány,
  • J. Ramiro Martínez-de Dios,
  • Ana G. Popa-Lisseanu,
  • Russell J. Gray,
  • Francisco Alarcón,
  • Carlos Albo Sánchez-Bedoya,
  • Antidio Viguria,
  • Carlos Ibáñez,
  • Juan J. Negro and
  • Pedro J. Marrón
  • + 1 author

28 July 2022

Most current insect research techniques are ground-based and provide scarce information about flying insects in the planetary boundary layer (PBL), which remains a poorly studied ecological niche. To address this gap, we developed a new insect-sampli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,457 Views
28 Pages

A Novel Multi-Scale Transformer for Object Detection in Aerial Scenes

  • Guanlin Lu,
  • Xiaohui He,
  • Qiang Wang,
  • Faming Shao,
  • Hongwei Wang and
  • Jinkang Wang

27 July 2022

Deep learning has promoted the research of object detection in aerial scenes. However, most of the existing networks are limited by the large-scale variation of objects and the confusion of category features. To overcome these limitations, this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,550 Views
25 Pages

25 July 2022

Mission-oriented UAV networks operate in nonsecure, complex environments with time-varying network partitioning and node trustworthiness. UAV networks are thus essentially asynchronous distributed systems with the Byzantine General problem, whose ava...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,519 Views
15 Pages

Rapid Evaluation Model of Endurance Performance and Its Application for Agricultural UAVs

  • Jiyu Li,
  • Bo Long,
  • Han Wu,
  • Xiaodan Hu,
  • Xu Wei,
  • Zhixun Zhang,
  • Lin Chai,
  • Jindian Xie and
  • Huilan Mei

25 July 2022

Current developments in agricultural aviation technology have gradually increased the requirements for the endurance of agricultural unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). It is significant to establish an endurance evaluation model for different types of...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
12,849 Views
17 Pages

LiDAR Based Detect and Avoid System for UAV Navigation in UAM Corridors

  • Enrique Aldao,
  • Luis M. González-de Santos and
  • Higinio González-Jorge

22 July 2022

In this work, a Detect and Avoid system is presented for the autonomous navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Urban Air Mobility (UAM) applications. The current implementation is designed for the operation of multirotor UAVs in UAM corrido...

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