Multi-UAVs collaborative tracking of moving target with maximized visibility in urban environment

J Wang, YX Wu, YQ Chen, S Ju - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2022 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with limited field of view are utilized to track a moving
ground target continuously in urban environment. In urban environment, the sight lines of …

A Path Planning Method for Collaborative Coverage Monitoring in Urban Scenarios

S Xu, Z Zhou, H Liu, X Zhang, J Li, H Gao - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become a popular and cost-effective
technology in urban scenarios, encompassing applications such as material transportation …

Development of cloud-based UAV monitoring and management system

M Itkin, M Kim, Y Park - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are an emerging technology with the potential to
revolutionize commercial industries and the public domain outside of the military. UAVs …

Effective and efficient detection of moving targets from a UAV's camera

S Minaeian, J Liu, YJ Son - IEEE transactions on intelligent …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and fast detection of the moving targets from a moving camera are an important yet
challenging problem, especially when the computational resources are limited. In this paper …

The unmanned aerial vehicle benchmark: Object detection and tracking

D Du, Y Qi, H Yu, Y Yang, K Duan… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
With the advantage of high mobility, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used to fuel
numerous important applications in computer vision, delivering more efficiency and …

Joint communication and action learning in multi-target tracking of UAV swarms with deep reinforcement learning

W Zhou, J Li, Q Zhang - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Communication is the cornerstone of UAV swarms to transmit information and achieve
cooperation. However, artificially designed communication protocols usually rely on prior …

Fly-crash-recover: A sensor-based reactive framework for online collision recovery of uavs

S Wang, N Anselmo, M Garrett… - 2020 Systems and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly popular thanks to the
multiplicity of operations in which they can be deployed such as surveillance, search and …

Multi-target tracking for unmanned aerial vehicle swarms using deep reinforcement learning

W Zhou, Z Liu, J Li, X Xu, L Shen - Neurocomputing, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has proved its great potential in multi-
agent cooperation. However, how to apply DRL to multi-target tracking (MTT) problem for …

Tracking multiple ground targets in urban environments using cooperating unmanned aerial vehicles

V Shaferman, T Shima - Journal of Dynamic …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
A distributed approach is proposed for planning a cooperative tracking task for a team of
heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) tracking multiple predictable ground …

Emerging urban challenge: RPAS/UAVs in cities

L Russell, R Goubran… - 2019 15th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An emerging urban challenge will be the proliferation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems
(RPAS) or drones, as their usage grows and drones fill the urban skies. Urban airspace will …