Active vision: A promising technology for achieving zero-defect manufacturing

KA Tsintotas, I Kansizoglou, FK Konstantinidis… - Procedia Computer …, 2024 - Elsevier
Quality constitutes the cutting-edge of contemporary industry, much more sharpened with
the emergence of Industry 4.0. Yet, the assurance of delivering high-quality products …

Embedded light-weight approach for safe landing in populated areas

T Mitroudas, V Balaska, A Psomoulis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Landing safety is a challenge heavily engaging the research community recently, due to the
increasing interest in applications availed by aerial vehicles. In this paper, we propose a …

Parametric Investigation of Canards on a Flying Wing UAV Using the Taguchi Method

S Kapsalis, C Bliamis, P Kaparos, P Panagiotou… - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
The current work investigates the effect of canard geometric characteristics on the
performance of a lightweight flying wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), capable of both …

Evaluating the Performance of Mobile-Convolutional Neural Networks for Spatial and Temporal Human Action Recognition Analysis

SN Moutsis, KA Tsintotas, I Kansizoglou, A Gasteratos - Robotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Human action recognition is a computer vision task that identifies how a person or a group
acts on a video sequence. Various methods that rely on deep-learning techniques, such as …

Autonomous Multirotor UAV Search and Landing on Safe Spots Based on Combined Semantic and Depth Information From an Onboard Camera and LiDAR

J Lim, M Kim, H Yoo, J Lee - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous or manual aerial vehicles should be able to land safely after conducting
missions. While human pilots can determine safe landing spots for manned or remote …

Semantic-based visual vocabulary for loop closure detection

IT Papapetros, KM Oikonomou… - … on Imaging Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recognizing when a robot is navigating in a previously visited location, known as loop
closure detection, constitutes an essential task within any simultaneous localization and …

A Comprehensive Analysis of UAV Collision Avoidance Techniques for Enhanced Aerial Safety

K Jaiswal, A Vashisth - 2023 4th International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drones, otherwise called Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), are as of now normal in a wide
range of enterprises and have changed jobs like bundle package delivery and surveillance …

Fleet tracking and Geofencing using the Internet of Things (IoT)

MM Raikar, K Angadi, S Reddy, N Naik… - … on Secure Cyber …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fleet tracking plays a vital role in transportation, allowing managers to monitor and control
assets. The manager is updated with the current state and location of the vehicles that can …

Multi-criteria Decision Making for Autonomous UAV Landing

T Mitroudas, V Balaska, A Psomoulis… - … on Imaging Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly popular, their safety
features turn out to be vital, not only for protecting the aircraft itself, but also people and …

Preliminary Design and Prototype Development of an Air-ground Carrier Platform

T Chen, J Han, J Wang, S Yan… - … on Unmanned Aircraft …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, amphibious or tri-amphibious UAVs have gradually received more attention.
They have two or three loading methods, which can overcome the limitations of a single …