Over the past years the UAV market has grown rapidly and will continue so. Several
manufacturer offer UAVs, which differ in their size, equipment or performance. Besides the …

The days where swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will occupy our skies are fast
approaching due to the introduction of cost-efficient and reliable small aerial vehicles and …

Dependable communication links for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are crucial to
operational reliability and mission success. This study is focused on evaluating the …

This paper describes field experiments with an X8 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
operating as a wireless communication relay while loitering over a REMUS 100 …

To expand the operative area for surveillance UAV, we propose the use of a relay UAV. The
relay UAV is used as an intermediary node in a communication network: the surveillance …

Communication technologies based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV s) are constantly
evolving and look forward to gradually improve within the close future. Traditional …

This paper proposes a method for the trajectory planning of an unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) acting as an aerial base station of a communication network. The UAV base station …

Communication links between a satellite and the ground station are subject to a lot of
impairments and losses, such as noise and atmospheric attenuations, and Doppler shift …

The 1 Lunar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-Map) will be one of 13 CubeSats to launch on the
first integrated flight of NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft in 2018. The …

The use of drones, formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has significantly
increased across a variety of applications over the past few years. This is due to the rapid …