Towards fully autonomous UAVs: A survey

T Elmokadem, AV Savkin - Sensors, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have undergone rapid developments in recent decades. This
has made them very popular for various military and civilian applications allowing us to …

A Review of Electric UAV Visual Detection and Navigation Technologies for Emergency Rescue Missions

P Tang, J Li, H Sun - Sustainability, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Sudden disasters often result in significant losses of human lives and property, and
emergency rescue is a necessary response to disasters. In recent years, with the …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the integration of edge computing and blockchain IoT: Principles, architectures, security, and applications

T Nguyen, H Nguyen, TN Gia - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
IoT systems are widely used in various applications, including healthcare, agriculture,
manufacturing, and smart cities. However, these systems still have limitations, such as lack …

Adaptive path planning for UAVs for multi-resolution semantic segmentation

F Stache, J Westheider, F Magistri, C Stachniss… - Robotics and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Efficient data collection methods play a major role in hel** us better understand the Earth
and its ecosystems. In many applications, the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for …

Cooperative UWB-based localization for outdoors positioning and navigation of UAVs aided by ground robots

Y **anjia, L Qingqing, JP Queralta… - 2021 IEEE …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming largely ubiquitous with an increasing
demand for aerial data. Accurate navigation and localization, required for precise data …

Agile formation control of drone flocking enhanced with active vision-based relative localization

P Zhang, G Chen, Y Li, W Dong - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vision-based relative localization can provide effective feedback for the cooperation of
aerial swarm and has been widely investigated in previous works. However, the limited field …

Precision landing tests of tethered multicopter and VTOL UAV on moving landing pad on a lake

C Kownacki, L Ambroziak, M Ciężkowski… - Sensors, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Autonomous take-off and landing on a moving landing pad are extraordinarily complex and
challenging functionalities of modern UAVs, especially if they must be performed in windy …

A novel internet-of-drones and blockchain-based system architecture for search and rescue

T Nguyen, R Katila, TN Gia - … Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development in information and communications technology (ICT) and drones such
as Internet-of-Things (IoT), edge computing, image processing, and autonomous drones …

Active Object Detection and Tracking Using Gimbal Mechanisms for Autonomous Drone Applications

JG Hansen, RP de Figueiredo - Drones, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Object recognition, localization, and tracking play a role of primordial importance in
computer vision applications. However, it is still an extremely difficult task, particularly in …

Multi-agent active search using realistic depth-aware noise model

R Ghods, WJ Durkin, J Schneider - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The active search for objects of interest in an unknown environment has many robotics
applications including search and rescue, detecting gas leaks or locating animal poachers …