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Drones, Volume 7, Issue 4

2023 April - 61 articles

Cover Story: Most accidents and incidents with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) occur during take-off or landing. Reducing human intervention in these operations increases system reliability and makes using qualified and trained pilots unnecessary. When using small-size UAVs, the take-off can be easily performed by hand, so the focus of this research was on the landing maneuver. The vast increase in the available computational capability has allowed for the application of Particle-Filter (PF)-based approaches for monocular 3D-model-based tracking. Using directional statistics and pose optimization, we overcame some of the implementation's limitations, increasing the filter's convergence capability and decreasing the obtained error. The results showed that the obtained pose estimation error is compatible with the automatic landing requirements. View this paper
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Articles (61)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,915 Views
25 Pages

27 March 2023

The problem of vision-based fixed-wing UAV formation control under communication limitations and the presence of measurement errors was investigated. In the first part of this paper, the single UAV motion model and the process of estimating the neigh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A UAV Platform for Flight Dynamics and Control System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,164 Views
28 Pages

High Precision Mesh-Based Drone Image Stitching Based on Salient Structure Preservation and Regular Boundaries

  • Qiuze Yu,
  • Ruikai Wang,
  • Fanghong Liu,
  • Jinsheng Xiao and ,
  • Jiachun An and
  • Jin Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 March 2023

Addressing problems such as obvious ghost, dislocation, and distortion resulting from the traditional stitching method, a novel drone image-stitching method is proposed using mesh-based local double-feature bundle adjustment and salient structure pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,367 Views
17 Pages

Connectivity-Maintenance UAV Formation Control in Complex Environment

  • Liangbin Zhu,
  • Cheng Ma,
  • Jinglei Li,
  • Yue Lu and
  • Qinghai Yang

26 March 2023

Cooperative formation control is the research basis for various tasks in the multi-UAV network. However, in a complex environment with different interference sources and obstacles, it is difficult for multiple UAVs to maintain their connectivity whil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-UAV Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,521 Views
18 Pages

24 March 2023

This article tackles the computational burden of propagating uncertainties in the model predictive controller-based policy of the probabilistic model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) system for an unmanned surface vehicles system (USV). We propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,776 Views
16 Pages

24 March 2023

Occasionally, investigating an accident is time-consuming, further compounding traffic congestion. This study aims to reconstruct a 3D model of an accident scene using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This study tested several flight parameters to c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Networks and UAV)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,494 Views
22 Pages

24 March 2023

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a novel paradigm that offers numerous possibilities for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In typical use cases, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can be applied to monitoring and logistics have received wide att...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-UAV Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
11,267 Views
20 Pages

24 March 2023

Reinforcement learning (RL) applications require a huge effort to become established in real-world environments, due to the injury and break down risks during interactions between the RL agent and the environment, in the online training process. In a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conceptual Design, Modeling, and Control Strategies of Drones-II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,936 Views
13 Pages

UAV Deployment Optimization for Secure Precise Wireless Transmission

  • Tong Shen,
  • Guiyang Xia,
  • Jingjing Ye,
  • Lichuan Gu and ,
  • Xiaobo Zhou and
  • Feng Shu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 March 2023

This paper develops an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) deployment scheme in the context of the directional modulation-based secure precise wireless transmissions (SPWTs) to achieve more secure and more energy efficiency transmission, where the optimal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-UAV Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,381 Views
15 Pages

Radiometric Correction of Multispectral Field Images Captured under Changing Ambient Light Conditions and Applications in Crop Monitoring

  • Beibei Xue,
  • Bo Ming,
  • Jiangfeng Xin,
  • Hongye Yang and ,
  • Shang Gao,
  • Huirong Guo,
  • Dayun Feng,
  • Chenwei Nie,
  • Keru Wang and
  • Shaokun Li
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

23 March 2023

Applications of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) spectral systems in precision agriculture require raw image data to be converted to reflectance to produce time-consistent, atmosphere-independent images. Complex light environments, such as those caused...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers for Drones in Agriculture and Forestry Section)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,592 Views
26 Pages

Application of Space–Sky–Earth Integration Technology with UAVs in Risk Identification of Tailings Ponds

  • Hong Zhang,
  • Quanming Li,
  • Jiachen Wang,
  • Botao Fu and ,
  • Zhijie Duan and
  • Ziyun Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 March 2023

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tilt photography technology has gradually become a new technical means of disaster risk identification. This technology combines UAVs, satellite remote sensing, and ground online monitoring systems to establish an integr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,840 Views
13 Pages

The Use of Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UASs) for Quantifying Shallow Coral Reef Restoration Success in Belize

  • Emily Adria Peterson,
  • Lisa Carne,
  • Jamani Balderamos,
  • Victor Faux and ,
  • Arthur Gleason and
  • Steven R. Schill
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 March 2023

There is a growing need for improved techniques to monitor coral reef restoration as these ecosystems and the goods and services they provide continue to decline under threats of anthropogenic activity and climate change. Given the difficulty of fine...

(This article belongs to the Section Drones in Ecology)

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