Drones, Volume 9, Issue 3

Currently, autonomous flight control for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has become increasingly critical in remote-sensing applications, such as high-resolution data acquisition and road disease detection. However, this task also faces significant c...

The integrity of earth infrastructure, encompassing slopes, dams, pavements, and embankments, is fundamental to the functioning of transportation networks, energy systems, and urban development. However, these infrastructures are increasingly threate...

UAV infrared sensor technology plays an irreplaceable role in various fields. High-altitude infrared images present significant challenges for feature extraction due to their uniform texture and color, fragile and variable edge information, numerous...

Hypersonic unmanned flight vehicles have complex dynamic characteristics, such as nonlinearity, strong coupling, multiple constraints, and uncertainty. Operating in highly complex flight environments, hypersonic unmanned flight vehicles must not only...

This article proposes an observer-based predefined-time robust formation controller for uncertain multi-UAV systems with external disturbances by integrating the sliding-mode technique with neural networks. The predefined-time strategy is developed t...

This systematic review explores the integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and artificial intelligence (AI) in automating road signage inventory creation, employing the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISM...

The estimation of Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) in Amorphophallus konjac (Konjac) is essential for field management and yield prediction. While previous research has demonstrated the efficacy of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) RGB imagery in estimating AG...

Multi-UAV path planning presents a critical challenge in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, particularly in environments with various obstacles and restrictions. These conditions transform multi-UAV path planning into a complex optimization...

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm dynamic combat poses significant challenges due to its complexity and dynamism. This study introduces a novel approach that addresses these challenges through the development of a swarm maneuver decision method bas...

Existing aerial forest fire monitoring data primarily consist of infrared or visible light images. However, there is a lack of in-depth research on the ability of models to perceive fire regions across different spectral images. To address this, we f...