A review of recent advances in coordination between unmanned aerial and ground vehicles

Y Ding, B **n, J Chen - Unmanned Systems, 2021 - World Scientific
Coordination between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles
(UGVs) has received increasing attention in recent years. The list of successful applications …

Mobile robotics in smart farming: current trends and applications

DF Yépez-Ponce, JV Salcedo… - Frontiers in Artificial …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, precision agriculture and smart farming have been deployed by leaps and
bounds as arable land has become increasingly scarce. According to the Food and …

A survey of intelligent transmission line inspection based on unmanned aerial vehicle

Y Luo, X Yu, D Yang, B Zhou - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
With the development of the new generation of information technology, artificial intelligence,
cloud computing and big data are gradually becoming powerful engines of the smart grid. In …

A deep reinforcement learning strategy for UAV autonomous landing on a moving platform

A Rodriguez-Ramos, C Sampedro, H Bavle… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2019 - Springer
The use of multi-rotor UAVs in industrial and civil applications has been extensively
encouraged by the rapid innovation in all the technologies involved. In particular, deep …

Efficient large-scale multi-drone delivery using transit networks

S Choudhury, K Solovey, MJ Kochenderfer… - Journal of Artificial …, 2021 - jair.org
We consider the problem of routing a large fleet of drones to deliver packages
simultaneously across broad urban areas. Besides flying directly, drones can use public …

Intelligent UAVs trajectory optimization from space-time for data collection in social networks

X Liu, H Song, A Liu - IEEE Transactions on Network Science …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, social network (SN) can use
AI to extract useful knowledge of users to improve the quality of peoples lives. Although AI …

Analysis, planning and control for cooperative transportation of tethered multi-rotor UAVs

Y Liu, F Zhang, P Huang, X Zhang - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The calculation of available wrench set of tethered multi-rotor UAVs is more challenging
than that of the traditional cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) with fixed anchor points, due …

Cooperative aerial–ground vehicle route planning with fuel constraints for coverage applications

P Maini, K Sundar, M Singh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) need multiple refuels to accomplish large area
coverage. We propose the use of a mobile ground vehicle (GV), constrained to travel on a …

Optimizing trajectory of unmanned aerial vehicles for efficient data acquisition: A matrix completion approach

X Liu, Y Liu, N Zhang, W Wu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used to efficiently collect information in
an areas of interest. Based on the matrix completion, an optimal UAV data collection …

Fault-tolerant formation control for heterogeneous vehicles via reinforcement learning

W Zhao, H Liu, KP Valavanis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on the formation control problem of multiple heterogeneous vehicles in
air–ground coordination under communication link faults and actuator faults. To address …