Navigation and Deployment of Solar-Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Civilian Applications: A Comprehensive Review

S Li, Z Fang, SC Verma, J Wei, AV Savkin - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial systems and renewable energy are two research areas that have
developed rapidly over the last few decades. Solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles …

Strategies for Optimized UAV Surveillance in Various Tasks and Scenarios: A Review

Z Fang, AV Savkin - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
This review paper provides insights into optimization strategies for Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs) in a variety of surveillance tasks and scenarios. From basic path planning …

Finite-time terminal sliding mode attitude control for tailless full-wing configuration UAVs based on extended state observers and auxiliary compensators

R Sun, Z Zhou, X Zhu - ISA transactions, 2024 - Elsevier
Considering the sensitivity of the tailless full-wing configuration unmanned aerial vehicle to
disturbance and the strong nonlinearity and coupling caused by the manipulation combining …

Visual-Based Moving Target Tracking With Solar-Powered Fixed-Wing UAV: A New Learning-Based Approach

S Hu, X Yuan, W Ni, X Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of legitimate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to surveil and track misbehaved
UAVs can serve a crucial role in public safety and security. This paper proposes a new deep …

State-of-Charge Trajectory Planning for Low-Altitude Solar-Powered Convertible UAV by Driven Modes

X Cao, L Liu - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
The conversion efficiency of solar energy and the capacity of energy storage batteries limit
the development of low-altitude solar-powered aircrafts in the face of challenging …

Failure Analysis in Next-Generation Critical Cellular Communication Infrastructures

S Bi, X Yuan, S Hu, K Li, W Ni, E Hossain… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The advent of communication technologies marks a transformative phase in critical
infrastructure construction, where the meticulous analysis of failures becomes paramount in …

On the Energy Consumption of Rotary Wing and Fixed Wing UAVs in Flying Networks

P Ribeiro, A Coelho, R Campos - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19009, 2024 - arxiv.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used to enable wireless
communications. Due to their characteristics, such as the ability to hover and carry cargo …

Utilizing Multiple UAVs for Covert Aerial Monitoring of a Mobile Target through Decentralized Priority-Based Trajectory Planning

T Almuzaini - 2024 16th International Conference on Computer …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous aerial robots or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in target
surveillance and monitoring for various purposes due to their affordability, mobility, and …

Decentralized Trajectory Planning for Covert Video Surveillance of a Ground-Moving Target Using Multiple UAVs

T Almuzaini - 2024 16th International Conference on Computer …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the field of autonomous aerial robotics, aerial drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
find extensive application in target surveillance for various purposes, owing to their …

Data-driven control design for UAV autolanding: a pitch-only case study

Q Tian, W Chen, Z Wang, M Sun, B Zhu… - 2024 3rd Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper aims at exploring a new-type mode for autolanding control of fixed-wing
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A discrete-time data-driven control scheme is tentatively …