Uav positioning mechanisms in landing stations: Classification and engineering design review

M Galimov, R Fedorenko, A Klimchik - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Landing platforms' automation is aimed at servicing vertical take-off and landing UAVs
between flights and maintaining their airworthiness. Over the last few years, different …

[PDF][PDF] A secure communication protocol for unmanned aerial vehicles

NA Khan, NZ Jhanjhi, SN Brohi… - … -computers Materials & …, 2022 - academia.edu
Mavlink is a lightweight and most widely used open-source communication protocol used for
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Multiple UAVs and autopilot systems support it, and it provides …

Vision-based autonomous landing using an MPC-controlled micro UAV on a moving platform

A Mohammadi, Y Feng, C Zhang… - 2020 International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous landing of micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on moving targets has the
potential to resolve many limitations of small-scale UAVs, such as uninterrupted flight tasks …

UAV landing using computer vision techniques for human detection

D Safadinho, J Ramos, R Ribeiro, V Filipe, J Barroso… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The capability of drones to perform autonomous missions has led retail companies to use
them for deliveries, saving time and human resources. In these services, the delivery …

Visual-based landing system of a multirotor UAV in GNSS denied environment

A Marut, P Wojciechowski, K Wojtowicz… - 2023 IEEE 10th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual-based landing systems for multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become
an active research area in robotics and aviation. The availability of GNSS signals is …

Analysis of airport design for introducing infrastructure for autonomous drones

H Edelman, J Stenroos, J Peña Queralta, D Hästbacka… - Facilities, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Connecting autonomous drones to ground operations and services is a
prerequisite for the adoption of scalable and sustainable drone services in the built …

Precision landing of a quadcopter drone by smartphone video guidance sensor in a gps-denied environment

N Bautista, H Gutierrez, J Inness, J Rakoczy - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper describes the deployment, integration, and demonstration of a Smartphone
Video Guidance Sensor (SVGS) as a novel technology for autonomous 6-DOF proximity …

Landing area recognition using deep learning for unammaned aerial vehicles

MFR Lee, A Nugroho, TT Le… - … on Advanced Robotics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The lack of an automated Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) landing site detection system
has been identified as one of the main impediments to allow UAV flight over populated …

AIRA: A Low-cost IR-based Approach Towards Autonomous Precision Drone Landing and NLOS Indoor Navigation

Y Liu, M Zhao, K Hou, J **a, C Carver, S **a… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Automatic drone landing is an important step for achieving fully autonomous drones.
Although there are many works that leverage GPS, video, wireless signals, and active …

Precision landing comparison between smartphone video guidance sensor and IRLock by hardware-in-the-loop emulation

JL Silva Cotta, J Rakoczy, H Gutierrez - CEAS Space Journal, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Smartphone Video Guidance Sensor (SVGS) is an emerging technology
developed by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center that uses a vision-based approach to …