Drones, Volume 8, Issue 5

In recent years, Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) usage in the medical sector as an alternative to traditional means of goods transport has grown significantly. Even though the reduced response time achieved with UASs can be lifesaving in critical situ...

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Quadruped robots equipped with manipulators need fast and precise grasping and detection algorithms for the transportation of disaster relief supplies. To address this, we developed a framework for these robots, comprising a Grasp Detection Controlle...

In response to potential denial environments such as canyons, gullies, islands, and cities where users are located, traditional Telemetry, Tracking, and Command (TT&C) systems can still maintain core requirements such as availability, reliability...

We introduce a modeling framework aimed at incorporating symbolic discrete controller synthesis (DCS) into a virtual robot experimental platform. This framework involves symbolically representing the behaviors of robotic systems along with their cont...

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 paper proposes a prescribed performance fault-tolerant control based on a fixed-time extended state observer (FXTESO) for a carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). First, the attitude motion model of the UAV is introduced. Secondly, the pro...

Our study introduces a new approach, leveraging robotics technology and remote sensing for multifaceted applications in forest and wildfire management. Presented in this paper is PULSAR, an innovative UAV with reconfigurable capabilities, able of ope...

Aerial photoelectric imaging payloads have become an important means of reconnaissance and surveillance in recent years. However, aerial images are easily affected by external conditions and have unclear edges, which greatly reduces the accuracy of i...

Forest fires often pose serious hazards, and the timely monitoring and extinguishing of residual forest fires using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can prevent re-ignition and mitigate the damage caused. Due to the urgency of forest fires, drones nee...