Unmanned aerial vehicle communications for civil applications: A review

M Ghamari, P Rangel, M Mehrubeoglu… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Automatic inspection of photovoltaic power plants using aerial infrared thermography: a review

AKV de Oliveira, M Aghaei, R Rüther - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, aerial infrared thermography (aIRT), as a cost-efficient inspection method,
has been demonstrated to be a reliable technique for failure detection in photovoltaic (PV) …

Region coverage-aware path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles: A systematic review

K Kumar, N Kumar - Physical Communication, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to carry out remote aerial surveys has become
prominent in recent years. The UAV-based survey faces several operational issues, such as …

[HTML][HTML] A new truck-drone routing problem for parcel delivery by considering energy consumption and altitude

M Momeni, SMJM Al-e-Hashem… - Annals of Operations …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The high population density in metropolitan areas, high-rise buildings, and changes in
people's lifestyles have completely changed the way postal packages are delivered. People …

Modified artificial potential field for the path planning of aircraft swarms in three-dimensional environments

RMJA Souza, GV Lima, AS Morais, LC Oliveira-Lopes… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Path planning techniques are of major importance for the motion of autonomous systems. In
addition, the chosen path, safety, and computational burden are essential for ensuring the …

Autonomous navigation for eVTOL: Review and future perspectives

H Wei, B Lou, Z Zhang, B Liang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This survey paper explores the emergent domain of electric vertical takeoff and landing
vehicles (eVTOLs), emphasizing the critical role of autonomous navigation capabilities …

Adaptive cooperative load transportation by a team of quadrotors with multiple constraint requirements

X Jin, Z Hu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cable-suspended load carried by multiple unman-ned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has
applications in many areas. However, most existing aerial load transportation works are …

UBER: UAV-based energy-efficient reconfigurable routing scheme for smart wireless livestock sensor network

MA Alanezi, AF Salami, YA Sha'aban… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper addresses coverage loss and rapid energy depletion issues for wireless livestock
sensor networks by proposing a UAV-based energy-efficient reconfigurable routing (UBER) …

Threats from and countermeasures for unmanned aerial and underwater vehicles

W Khawaja, V Semkin, NI Ratyal, Q Yaqoob, J Gul… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for different applications has increased
tremendously during the past decade. The small size, high maneuverability, ability to fly at …

Control algorithms, Kalman estimation and near actual simulation for UAVs: state of art perspective

MA Tahir, I Mir, TU Islam - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
The pervasive use of unmanned aerial vehicles for both commercial and military operations
has undergone rapid development in the recent past. When designing unmanned aerial …