An overview on visual slam: From tradition to semantic

W Chen, G Shang, A Ji, C Zhou, X Wang, C Xu, Z Li… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Visual SLAM (VSLAM) has been developing rapidly due to its advantages of low-cost
sensors, the easy fusion of other sensors, and richer environmental information. Traditional …

Unmanned aerial vehicles for search and rescue: A survey

M Lyu, Y Zhao, C Huang, H Huang - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their
flexibility, mobility, and accessibility in various fields, including search and rescue (SAR) …

Visual slam: What are the current trends and what to expect?

A Tourani, H Bavle, JL Sanchez-Lopez, H Voos - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems have shown
significant performance, accuracy, and efficiency gain. In this regard, Visual Simultaneous …

Task allocation of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles based on deep transfer reinforcement learning

Y Yin, Y Guo, Q Su, Z Wang - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the development of UAV technology, the task allocation problem of multiple UAVs is
remarkable, but most of these existing heuristic methods are easy to fall into the problem of …

6G toward metaverse: Technologies, applications, and challenges

H Peng, PC Chen, PH Chen, YS Yang… - 2022 IEEE VTS Asia …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Metaverse opens up a new social networking paradigm where people can experience a real
interactive feeling without physical space constraints. Social interactions are gradually …

An improved probabilistic roadmap planning method for safe indoor flights of unmanned aerial vehicles

Q Jin, Q Hu, P Zhao, S Wang, M Ai - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in industry and daily life, where
safety is the primary consideration, resulting in their use in open outdoor environments …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning of monocular depth, optical flow and ego-motion with geometric guidance for UAV navigation in dynamic environments

F Mumuni, A Mumuni, CK Amuzuvi - Machine Learning with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Computer vision-based depth estimation and visual odometry provide perceptual
information useful for robot navigation tasks like obstacle avoidance. However, despite the …

Visual-inertial odometry using high flying altitude drone datasets

A George, N Koivumäki, T Hakala, J Suomalainen… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Positioning of unoccupied aerial systems (UAS, drones) is predominantly based on Global
Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Due to potential signal disruptions, redundant …

3D AQI mapping data assessment of low-altitude drone real-time air pollution monitoring

S Duangsuwan, P Prapruetdee, M Subongkod… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Air pollution primarily originates from substances that are directly emitted from natural or
anthropogenic processes, such as carbon monoxide (CO) gas emitted in vehicle exhaust or …

Search and rescue in a maze-like environment with ant and dijkstra algorithms

Z Husain, A Al Zaabi, H Hildmann, F Saffre, D Ruta… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the growing reliability of modern ad hoc networks, it is encouraging to analyze the
potential involvement of autonomous ad hoc agents in critical situations where human …