Autonomous aerial robotics for package delivery: A technical review

J Saunders, S Saeedi, W Li - Journal of Field Robotics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant interest in the last decade.
More specifically these vehicles have the capacity to impact package delivery logistics in a …

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 …

A review of cooperative path planning of an unmanned aerial vehicle group

H Zhang, B **n, L Dou, J Chen, K Hirota - Frontiers of Information …, 2020 - Springer
As a cutting-edge branch of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, the cooperation of a
group of UAVs has attracted increasing attention from both civil and military sectors, due to …

An overview of end effectors in agricultural robotic harvesting systems

E Vrochidou, VN Tsakalidou, I Kalathas, T Gkrimpizis… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, the agricultural sector has turned to robotic automation to deal with the
growing demand for food. Harvesting fruits and vegetables is the most labor-intensive and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Wireless power transfer with unmanned aerial vehicles: State of the art and open challenges

T Ojha, TP Raptis, A Passarella, M Conti - Pervasive and mobile computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Wireless power transfer (WPT) techniques are emerging as a fundamental component of
next-generation energy management in mobile networks. In this context, the use of UAVs …

Cooperative load transportation with two quadrotors using adaptive control

DKD Villa, AS Brandão, R Carelli… - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of carrying a bar-shaped payload suspended by flexible cables attached to two
quadrotors is analyzed in this work. The aerial vehicles and the load are dealt with as a …

Multi-UAV collaborative transportation of payloads with obstacle avoidance

A Hegde, D Ghose - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Control barrier functions have been widely studied and applied to safety-critical systems,
including multi-agent obstacle avoidance problems. In this work, we apply control barrier …

Multi-UAV autonomous path planning in reconnaissance missions considering incomplete information: A reinforcement learning method

Y Chen, Q Dong, X Shang, Z Wu, J Wang - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are important in reconnaissance missions because of
their flexibility and convenience. Vitally, UAVs are capable of autonomous navigation, which …

A review of collaborative air-ground robots research

C Liu, J Zhao, N Sun - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2022 - Springer
The collaboration of heterogeneous robots is a hot topic in multi-intelligent agents,
characterized by wide-area coverage and high environmental adaptability. Compared with a …