Wilduav: Monocular uav dataset for depth estimation tasks

H Florea, VC Miclea… - 2021 IEEE 17th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Acquiring scene depth information remains a crucial step in most autonomous navigation
applications, enabling advanced features such as obstacle avoidance and SLAM. In many …

Scheduling PID attitude and position control frequencies for time-optimal quadrotor waypoint tracking under unknown external disturbances

C Kang, B Park, J Choi - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, the use of quadrotors has increased in numerous applications, such as
agriculture, rescue, transportation, inspection, and localization. Time-optimal quadrotor …

Fast region of interest proposals on maritime UAVs

B Kiefer, A Zell - 2023 IEEE International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles assist in maritime search and rescue missions by flying over
large search areas to autonomously search for objects or people. Reliably detecting objects …

Generative design of main landing gear for a remote-controlled aircraft

A Gupta, V Soni, D Shah, A Lakdawala - Materials Today: Proceedings, 2023 - Elsevier
Current research and development in the aviation and aerospace industry aim to increase
efficiency by reducing the weight of a remote-controlled (RC) aircraft using various …

RF-Search: Searching Unconscious Victim in Smoke Scenes with RF-enabled Drone

BB Zhang, D Zhang, R Song, B Wang, Y Hu… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Toxic gases inhalation is the most common cause of death in fire scenes, which can make
people unconscious and unable to save themselves. Hence, discovering the unconscious …

CONSOLE: Intruder detection using a UAV swarm and security rings

DH Stolfi, MR Brust, G Danoy, P Bouvry - Swarm Intelligence, 2021 - Springer
Abstract This article introduces CONcentric Swarm mObiLity modEl (CONSOLE), a novel
mobility model for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to efficiently achieve surveillance and …

Wilderness search and rescue missions using deep reinforcement learning

A Peake, J McCalmon, Y Zhang… - … on Safety, Security …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wilderness Search and Rescue (WiSAR) requires navigating large regions-often in rugged,
remote areas-searching for missing people or animals. Because of the large regions and …

Towards Generalized UAV Object Detection: A Novel Perspective from Frequency Domain Disentanglement

K Wang, X Fu, C Ge, C Cao, ZJ Zha - International Journal of Computer …, 2024 - Springer
When deploying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) object detection networks to complex, real-
world scenes, generalization ability is often reduced due to domain shift. While most existing …

A sensor review for human detection with robotic systems in regular and smoky environments

S Gelfert - International Journal of Advanced Robotic …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Search and rescue robots gained a significant attention in the past, as they assist firefighters
during their rescue missions. The opportunity to move autonomously or remotely controlled …

Real-time person detection in wooded areas using thermal images from an aerial perspective

O Ramírez-Ayala, I González-Hernández, S Salazar… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Detecting people in images and videos captured from an aerial platform in wooded areas for
search and rescue operations is a current problem. Detection is difficult due to the relatively …