2023 May - 54 articles
Maintaining high system performance is critical for a multi-hop flying mesh network (FlyMesh) to perform missions in different environments. Although the Poisson point process (PPP) has been widely used for the performance analysis of FlyMesh, it sti...
Air logistics transportation has become one of the most promising markets for the civil drone industry. However, the large flow, high density, and complex environmental characteristics of urban scenes make tactical conflict resolution very challengin...
Due to the low efficiency and safety of a manual insulator inspection, research on intelligent insulator inspections has gained wide attention. However, most existing defect recognition methods extract abstract features of the entire image directly b...
Ducted-fan tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide versatility and unique benefits, attracting significant attention in various applications. This study focuses on developing a safe reinforcement learning method for back-transition contro...
This paper proposes a random tree algorithm based on a potential field oriented greedy strategy for the path planning of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Potential-field-RRT (PF-RRT) discards the defect of traditional artificial potential field (APF)...
The research topic of VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) fixed wing (VFW) is gaining significant attention, particularly in the transition phase from VTOL to fixed wing and vice versa. One of the latest and most challenging transition strategies is...
Due to the high stability and adaptability, quadruped robots are currently highly discussed in the robotics field. To overcome the complicated environment indoor or outdoor, the quadruped robots should be configured with an environment perception sys...
In this study, a sliding mode surface controller (SMC) designed for a quadcopter is experimentally tested. The SMC was combined with disturbance observers in six degrees of freedom of the quadcopter to effectively reject external disturbances. While...
The accurate estimation of airspace capacity in unmanned traffic management (UTM) operations is critical for a safe, efficient, and equitable allocation of airspace system resources. While conventional approaches for assessing airspace complexity cer...
Anomaly detection has an important impact on the development of unmanned aerial vehicles, and effective anomaly detection is fundamental to their utilization. Traditional anomaly detection discriminates anomalies for single-dimensional factors of sen...
In Peru, common bean varieties adapt very well to arid zones, and it is essential to strengthen their evaluations accurately during their phenological stage by using remote sensors and UAV. However, this technology has not been widely adopted in the...
This paper proposes the creative idea that an unmanned fixed-wing aircraft should automatically adjust its 3D landing trajectory online to land on a given touchdown point, instead of following a pre-designed fixed glide slope angle or a landing path...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) path planning has increasingly become the key research point for civilian drones to expand their use and enhance their work efficiency. Focusing on offline derivative algorithms, represented by Rapidly-exploring Random T...
Recent advancements in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have proven UAVs to be an inevitable part of future networking and communications systems. While many researchers have proposed UAV-assisted solutions for improving traditional network performanc...
Security and privacy issues were long a subject of concern with drones from the past few years. This is due to the lack of security and privacy considerations in the design of the drone, which includes unsecured wireless channels and insufficient com...
Advanced air mobility (AAM) is an emerging sector in aviation aiming to offer secure, efficient, and eco-friendly transportation utilizing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. These vehicles are designed for short-haul flights, tra...
Delivery drones have been attracting attention as a means of solving recent logistics issues, and many companies are focusing on their practical applications. Many research studies on delivery drones have been active for several decades. Among them,...
The angle of arrival (AOA) is widely used to locate a wireless signal emitter in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization. Compared with received signal strength (RSS) and time of arrival (TOA), AOA has higher accuracy and is not sensitive to the t...
Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) points and high-resolution RGB image-derived points have been successfully used to extract tree structural parameters. However, the differences in extracting individual tree structural parameters among different tr...
The detection of drones using radar presents challenges due to their small radar cross-section (RCS) values, slow velocities, and low altitudes. Traditional signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) detectors often fail to detect weak radar signals from small dron...
With the rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), often referred to as drones, their security issues are attracting more and more attention. Due to open-access communication environments, UAVs may raise security concerns, including authe...
This article’s main topic is an assessment of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) noise pollution in several weight categories according to Regulation (EU) 2019/947 and its impact on the urban environment during regular operation. The necessity of s...
The global COVID-19 pandemic forced the construction industry to a standstill. In the wake of the pandemic, this sector must be prepared to make bold, innovative moves to prepare for the future. Over the past few years, the use of drones and robotics...
In future electronic warfare (EW), there will be many unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with electronic support measure (ESM) systems, which will often encounter the challenge of radar emitter identification (REI) with few labeled samples. To...
Object detection is a critical task that becomes difficult when dealing with onboard detection using aerial images and computer vision technique. The main challenges with aerial images are small target sizes, low resolution, occlusion, attitude, and...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be an important component in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem due to their ability to collect and transmit data from remote and hard-to-reach areas. Ensuring collision-free navigation for these UAVs is crucia...
The geological environmental damage caused by coal mining has become a hot issue in current research. Especially in the western mining area, the size of the mining working face is large, the mining intensity is high, while the surface movement and de...
Large stratospheric balloons are the easiest access to near space. Large long duration balloons (LDBs) can float in the stratosphere for weeks collecting measurements (e.g., astrophysical or geophysical data) or samples (e.g., contaminants, volcanic...
Agents are used to exhibit swarm intelligence in the sense of convergence, while divergence is equivalently common in nature and useful in complex applications for multi-UAV systems. This paper proposes a robust target-tracking control algorithm, whe...
Night security is known for its long hours and heavy tasks. In Japan, a labor shortage of security guards has become an issue in recent years. To solve these problems, an increasing number of robotic security methods are being used. However, several...
Quadrotor drone attitude tracking is inevitably affected by the combination of model uncertainties, external disturbances, and non-ideal actuator dynamics during stable flight and complex maneuvers. In order to achieve precise attitude control in the...
UAV multitarget detection plays a pivotal role in civil and military fields. Although deep learning methods provide a more effective solution to this task, changes in target size, shape change, occlusion, and lighting conditions from the perspective...
Providing robust communication services to mobile users (MUs) is a challenging task due to the dynamicity of MUs. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and mobile edge computing (MEC) are used to improve connectivity by allocating resources to MUs more eff...
The adoption of drones and other emerging digital technologies (DTs) has proven essential in revolutionizing humanitarian logistics as standalone solutions. However, the interoperability of humanitarian drones with other DTs has not yet been explored...
During long-distance flight, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) need to perform cross-domain authentication to prove their identity and receive information from the ground control station (GCS). However, the GCS needs to verify all drones arriving at th...
Delivery drones typically perform delivery by suspending the parcel vertically or landing the drone to drop off the package. However, because of the constrained landing area and the requirement for precise navigation, delivering items to customers wh...
Leaf area index (LAI) is a widely used plant biophysical parameter required for modelling plant photosynthesis and crop yield estimation. UAV remote sensing plays an increasingly important role in providing the data source needed for LAI extraction....
As UAV technology has been leaping forward, small consumer-grade UAVs equipped with optical sensors are capable of easily acquiring high-resolution images, which show bright prospects in a wide variety of terrains and different fields. First, the cra...
UAV swarm applications are critical for the future, and their mission-planning and decision-making capabilities have a direct impact on their performance. However, creating a dynamic and scalable assignment algorithm that can be applied to various gr...
The rapid popularity of UAVs has encouraged the development of Anti-UAV technology. Infrared-detector-based visual tracking for UAVs provides an encouraging solution for Anti-UAVs. However, it still faces the problem of tracking instability caused by...
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...
Using adaptive dynamic programming (ADP), this paper presents a novel attitude-tracking scheme for over-actuated tailless unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that integrates control and control allocation while accounting for nonlinearity and nonaffine c...
Traffic lights detection and recognition (TLDR) is one of the necessary abilities of multi-type intelligent mobile platforms such as drones. Although previous TLDR methods have strong robustness in their recognition results, the feasibility of deploy...
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...
With the development of pesticide substitution technology, ozonated water has been gradually applied in agricultural plant protection. This paper describes our development of an ecological plant protection unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can produ...
Soil organic matter (SOM) is a critical indicator of soil nutrient levels, and the precise mapping of its spatial distribution through remote sensing is essential for soil regulation, precise fertilization, and scientific management and protection. T...
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an autonomous flying robot that has attracted the interest of several communities because of its capacity to increase the safety and productivity of labor. In terms of software engineering, UAV system development i...
Light helicopters are used for a variety of applications, attracting users from private and public market segments because of their agility and convenient storage capabilities. However, most light helicopters on the market today are designed and manu...
As a special type of transformer, vision transformers (ViTs) can be used for various computer vision (CV) applications. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have several potential problems that can be resolved with ViTs. For image coding tasks such a...
Numerous services and applications have been developed to monitor anomalies or collect various sensing information in large-scale monitoring areas using drones. Nonetheless, interruptions of drone missions in such areas occasionally occur due to netw...
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