Multipurpose UAV for search and rescue operations in mountain avalanche events

M Silvagni, A Tonoli, E Zenerino… - … , Natural Hazards and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a multipurpose UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) for mountain rescue
operations. The multi-rotors based flying platform and its embedded avionics are designed …

Aerial manipulation—A literature survey

HB Khamseh, F Janabi-Sharifi… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a literature survey on aerial manipulation. First of all, an extensive study
of aerial vehicles and manipulation/interaction mechanisms in aerial manipulation is …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): A survey on civil applications and key research challenges

H Shakhatreh, AH Sawalmeh, A Al-Fuqaha, Z Dou… - Ieee …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil
application domains, including real-time monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote …

Autonomous navigation of UAVs in large-scale complex environments: A deep reinforcement learning approach

C Wang, J Wang, Y Shen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based method that allows
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to execute navigation tasks in large-scale complex …

Joint resources and workflow scheduling in UAV-enabled wirelessly-powered MEC for IoT systems

Y Du, K Yang, K Wang, G Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers a UAV-enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where a UAV
first powers the Internet of things device (IoTD) by utilizing Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) …

Autonomous exploration and mapping system using heterogeneous UAVs and UGVs in GPS-denied environments

H Qin, Z Meng, W Meng, X Chen, H Sun… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a novel integrated vehicular system using collaborative unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for autonomous exploration …

Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles in bushfire management: Challenges and opportunities

S Partheepan, F Sanati, J Hassan - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
The intensity and frequency of bushfires have increased significantly, destroying property
and living species in recent years. Presently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology …

Distributed UAV swarm formation and collision avoidance strategies over fixed and switching topologies

J Wu, C Luo, Y Luo, K Li - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a controlling framework for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
to integrate the modes of formation flight and swarm deployment over fixed and switching …

Beam tracking for UAV mounted SatCom on-the-move with massive antenna array

J Zhao, F Gao, Q Wu, S Jin, Y Wu… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-satellite communication has drawn dramatic attention for its
potential to build the integrated space-air-ground network and the seamless wide-area …

Angle domain hybrid precoding and channel tracking for millimeter wave massive MIMO systems

J Zhao, F Gao, W Jia, S Zhang, S Jin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The millimeter-wave (mm-wave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system has
gained much attention for its considerable improvement in system throughput. However, the …