Academic Articles & Research Papers

A Spatiotemporal Uncertainty-Aware Task Planning Framework for Cooperative Vehicle-UAV Remote Sensing Monitoring and Verification in Complex Terrain.

Estimation of leaf nitrogen content in fruit trees within Arid Oasis Orchards using UAV-based spectral-texture fusion.

Vehicle detection in drone aerial views based on lightweight OSD-YOLOv10

Abstract To address the challenges of low performance in vehicle image detection from UAV aerial imagery, difficulties in small target feature extraction, and the large parameter size of existing models, we propose the OSD-YOLOv10 algorithm...

Advanced Combination Localization Algorithm Based on Trilateration for Dynamic Cluster Network

Dynamic cluster network localization requires taking the following factors into consideration: 1) the localization time of network nodes; 2) the communication load among all cluster nodes, and; 3) the presence of the abnormal distance measu...

Drone Control using the Coupling of the PID Controller and Genetic Algorithm

Due to their strong abilities and easy usage, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) commonly named drones have found a place and merged in the different industrial sectors. These varieties of applications encourage researchers to search for new c...

Two-Stage Framework for Efficient UAV-Based Wildfire Video Analysis With Adaptive Compression and Fire Source Detection

Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly important in disaster emergency response by facilitating aerial video analysis. Due to the limited computational resources available on UAVs, large models cannot be run efficiently fo...

UAV Image Mosaicking Based on Multiregion Guided Local Projection Deformation

The goal of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) image mosaicking is to create natural- looking mosaics without artifacts due to the parallax of the image and relative camera motion. UAV remote sensing is a low-altitude technology and the UAV imag...

Utilizing the Finite Fourier Series to Generate Quadrotor Trajectories Through Multiple Waypoints

Motion planning is critical for ensuring precise and efficient operations of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). While polynomial parameterization has been the prevailing approach, its limitations in handling complex trajectory requirements ha...

Study on Flight Performance of Propeller-Driven UAV

The engine performance test at altitudes of 0-7000 m was carried out on the high-performance test bench of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) piston engine. The flight performance of UAV was studied, including propeller thrust characteristic...

Research of Multi-Rotor UAVs Detailed Autonomous Inspection Technology of Transmission Lines Based on Route Planning

With the rapid development of the economy, the scale of transmission networks has been expanding, bring higher demands and challenges on transmission line operation and maintenance. In this paper, the multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (U...

Embedded Sensor Data Fusion and TinyML for Real-Time Remaining Useful Life Estimation of UAV Li Polymer Batteries

The accurate real-time estimation of the remaining useful life (RUL) of lithium-polymer (LiPo) batteries is a critical enabler for ensuring the safety, reliability, and operational efficiency of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Nevertheless...

Iterative Learning Method for In-Flight Auto-Tuning of UAV Controllers Based on Basic Sensory Information

With an increasing number of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), solutions supporting the improvement in their precision of operation and safety of autonomous flights are gaining importance. They are particularly crucial in transpor...

Application of Quantum Key Distribution to Enhance Data Security in Agrotechnical Monitoring Systems Using UAVs

Ensuring secure data transmission in agrotechnical monitoring systems using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is critical due to increasing cyber threats, particularly with the advent of quantum computing. This study proposes the integration ...

Overview of Tensor-Based Cooperative MIMO Communication Systems—Part 1: Tensor Modeling

Due to increasingly strong and varied performance requirements, cooperative wireless communication systems today occupy a prominent place in both academic research and industrial development. The technological and economic challenges for fu...

Optimization of False Target Jamming against UAV Detection

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used for target detection in modern battlefields. From the viewpoint of the opponents, false target jamming is an effective approach to decrease the UAV detection ability or probability, but ...

Multi-Camera Machine Vision for Detecting and Analyzing Vehicle–Pedestrian Conflicts at Signalized Intersections: Deep Neural-Based Pose Estimation Algorithms

Over the past decade, researchers have advanced traffic monitoring using surveillance cameras, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), loop detectors, LiDAR, microwave sensors, and sensor fusion. These technologies effectively detect and track veh...

Computer Vision System for Automatic Counting of Planting Microsites Using UAV Imagery

Mechanical site preparation by mounding is often used by the forest industry to provide optimal growth conditions for tree seedlings. Prior to planting, an essential step consists in estimating the number of mounds at each planting block, w...

Optimal Frontier-Based Autonomous Exploration in Unconstructed Environment Using RGB-D Sensor

Aerial robots are widely used in search and rescue applications because of their small size and high maneuvering. However, designing an autonomous exploration algorithm is still a challenging and open task, because of the limited payload an...

Estimating Black Oat Biomass Using Digital Surface Models and a Vegetation Index Derived from RGB-Based Aerial Images

Responsible for food production and industry inputs, agriculture needs to adapt to worldwide increasing demands and environmental requirements. In this scenario, black oat has gained environmental and economic importance since it can be use...

Cross-Correlation-Based Structural System Identification Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Computer vision techniques have been employed to characterize dynamic properties of structures, as well as to capture structural motion for system identification purposes. All of these methods leverage image-processing techniques using a st...