[HTML][HTML] Enhancing accessibility in smart cities: AI-based autonomous inspection and certification framework

M Altaf, S Mostafa - Digital Engineering, 2025 - Elsevier
The expanding number of elderly and disabled populations, coupled with the growing
demand for accessible accommodation and the shortcomings of conventional inspection …

Unsupervised UAV 3D Trajectories Estimation with Sparse Point Clouds

H Liang, Y Yang, J Hu, J Yang, F Liu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Compact UAV systems, while advancing delivery and surveillance, pose significant security
challenges due to their small size, which hinders detection by traditional methods. This …

MM-LINS: a Multi-Map LiDAR-Inertial System for Over-Degenerate Environments

Y Ma, J Xu, S Yuan, T Zhi, W Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SLAM plays a crucial role in automation tasks, such as warehouse logistics, healthcare
robotics, and restaurant delivery. These scenes come with various challenges, including …

Transmission Line Component Defect Detection Based on UAV Patrol Images: A Self-Supervised HC-ViT Method

K Zhang, R Zhou, J Wang, Y **ao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) patrol inspection has become an efficient method to
ensure the operation condition of transmission lines. The detection of key components with …

Robust Radar Inertial Odometry in Dynamic 3D Environments

Y Lyu, L Hua, J Wu, X Liang, C Zhao - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
Millimeter-Wave Radar is one promising sensor to achieve robust perception against
challenging observing conditions. In this paper, we propose a Radar Inertial Odometry (RIO) …

UAV Coverage Path Planning of Multiple Disconnected Regions Based on Cooperative Optimization Algorithms

Y Lyu, S Wang, T Hu, Q Pan - IEEE Transactions on Cognitive …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the coverage path planning problem when an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) surveys an unknown site composed of multiple isolated areas. The problem is …

A Cost-Effective Cooperative Exploration and Inspection Strategy for Heterogeneous Aerial System

X Xu, M Cao, S Yuan, TH Nguyen, TM Nguyen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we propose a cost-effective strategy for heterogeneous UAV swarm systems
for cooperative aerial inspection. Unlike previous swarm inspection works, the proposed …

TL-CLIP: A Power-specific Multimodal Pre-trained Visual Foundation Model for Transmission Line Defect Recognition

K Zhang, Z Zheng, Y Guo, J Wang, J Yang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Transmission line defect recognition models have traditionally used general pre-trained
weights as the initial basis for their training. These models often suffer weak generalization …

Air-to-Air Detection and Tracking of Non-Cooperative UAVs for 3D Reconstruction

Y Liu, L **, Z Sun, L Zhang, W Dong… - 2024 IEEE 18th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The monitoring and regulation of unauthorized, unresponsive, or uncommunicative non-
cooperative UAVs is still one of the great challenges in airspace safety management …

From Novice to Skilled: RL-based Shared Autonomy Communicating with Pilots in UAV Multi-Task Missions

K Backman, D Kulić, H Chung - ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction - dl.acm.org
Multi-task missions for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) involving inspection and landing
tasks are challenging for novice pilots due to the difficulties associated with depth perception …