In order to improve power generation efficiency and reduce land cost, many large-scale
photovoltaic (PV) farms are built on the mountain. The rugged terrain of the mountains leads …

Small scale quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has attracted much attention in
recent years and has been widely adopted in many civil applications, eg inspection of critical …

Solar energy is one of the most strategic energy sources for the world's economic
development. This has caused the number of solar photovoltaic plants to increase around …

UAVs used in monitoring crop fields are flying higher than 6 meters and capture telemetric
data that provides information on the general condition of the plants in the field. But, in order …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been implemented for environmental monitoring by
using their capabilities of mobile sensing, autonomous navigation, and remote operation …

In this paper, an innovative approach is represented in order to optimize the path planning
during UAV flight in the monitoring of PV power plants. For this purpose, two algorithms are …

Autonomous inspection of large geographical areas is a central requirement for efficient
hazard detection and disaster management in future cyber-physical systems such as smart …

In this paper, we propose a novel cluster-based informative path planning algorithm to
simultaneously explore and inspect a large-scale unknown environment with an Unmanned …

In order to improve the effectiveness and reliability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
automatic navigation and inspection for large photovoltaic (PV) power plants, a strategy of …

Solar energy is seen as a sustainable and non-depletable source of energy supply.
Worldwide, large-scale solar power infrastructure is being installed every day. Such …