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 …

Computer vision is much more than a technique to sense and recover environmental
information from an UAV. It should play a main role regarding UAVs' functionality because of …

This paper addresses the problem of autonomous navigation of a micro air vehicle (MAV) in
GPS‐denied environments. We present experimental validation and analysis for our system …

An image-based visual servo control is presented for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
capable of stationary or quasi-stationary flight with the camera mounted onboard the vehicle …

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology provides a new option for power
transmission line inspection. The cost of the UAV detection process is relatively low, and it is …

An autonomous machine vision module for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation for
inspection of wind turbines is presented. The system estimates the relative position and …

This thesis presents the design, implementation, and validation of a system that enables a
micro air vehicle to autonomously explore and map unstructured and unknown indoor …

This paper presents a review of the state of the art and a discussion on vertical take-off and
landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) applied to the inspection of power utility …

This article presents a real time Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs 3D pose estimation
method using planar object tracking, in order to be used on the control system of a UAV. The …

Road defect detection is a crucial aspect of road maintenance projects, but traditional
manual methods are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and lack accuracy. Leveraging deep …