A review of GNSS-independent UAV navigation techniques

N Gyagenda, JV Hatilima, H Roth, V Zhmud - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Application of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in environments devoid of GNSS
(Global Navigation Satellite System) service has motivated research into GNSS …

A survey of small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles: Recent advances and future development trends

G Cai, J Dias, L Seneviratne - Unmanned Systems, 2014‏ - World Scientific
This paper provides a brief overview on the recent advances of small-scale unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) from the perspective of platforms, key elements, and scientific …

Uav-yolo: Small object detection on unmanned aerial vehicle perspective

M Liu, X Wang, A Zhou, X Fu, Y Ma, C Piao - Sensors, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Object detection, as a fundamental task in computer vision, has been developed
enormously, but is still challenging work, especially for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) …

RFlySim: Automatic test platform for UAV autopilot systems with FPGA-based hardware-in-the-loop simulations

X Dai, C Ke, Q Quan, KY Cai - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Autopilot systems on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are safety-critical systems whose
requirements on reliability and safety are ever-increasing. However, testing a complex …

Unsupervised detection of vineyards by 3D point-cloud UAV photogrammetry for precision agriculture

L Comba, A Biglia, DR Aimonino, P Gay - Computers and electronics in …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
An effective management of precision viticulture processes relies on robust crop monitoring
procedures and, in the near future, to autonomous machine for automatic site-specific crop …

Design and deployment of UAV-aided post-disaster emergency network

KG Panda, S Das, D Sen, W Arif - IEEE access, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Designing a reliable, resilient, and quickly deployable emergency communication network is
a key challenge for post-disaster management. In this paper, a UAV-assisted emergency Wi …

A review on the platform design, dynamic modeling and control of hybrid UAVs

AS Saeed, AB Younes, S Islam, J Dias… - 2015 International …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a review on the platform design, dynamic modeling and control of
hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). For now, miniature UAVs which have …

[HTML][HTML] Control techniques of tilt rotor unmanned aerial vehicle systems: A review

Z Liu, Y He, L Yang, J Han - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The tilt rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (TRUAV) exhibits special application value due to its
unique rotor structure. However, varying dynamics and aerodynamic interference caused by …

Behavioral classification of data from collars containing motion sensors in grazing cattle

LA González, GJ Bishop-Hurley, RN Handcock… - … and electronics in …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Remote monitoring of animal behavior offers great potential to improve livestock
management however technologies able to collect data at high frequency and accurate data …

Multiapproximator-based fault-tolerant tracking control for unmanned autonomous helicopter with input saturation

M Chen, K Yan, Q Wu - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, an adaptive neural fault-tolerant control (FTC) scheme is proposed for the
medium-scale unmanned autonomous helicopter subject to external disturbance, actuator …