Coverage path planning with semantic segmentation for UAV in PV plants

A Pérez-González, N Benítez-Montoya… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

Bayesian reinforcement learning for navigation planning in unknown environments

M Alali, M Imani - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2024 - frontiersin.org
This study focuses on a rescue mission problem, particularly enabling agents/robots to
navigate efficiently in unknown environments. Technological advances, including …

Hardware-in-the-loop simulation platform for unmanned aerial vehicle swarm system: Architecture and application

Z Zhang, W Yang, Z Shi, Y Zhong - 2020 39th Chinese Control …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) simulation platform is developed for fixed-wing unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm system. Flight dynamics simulation of multiple UAVs is enabled …

Sensor information sharing using a producer-consumer algorithm on small vehicles

R Vazquez-Lopez, JC Herrera-Lozada… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
There are several tools, frameworks, and algorithms to solve information sharing from
multiple tasks and robots. Some applications such as ROS, Kafka, and MAVLink cover most …

Development and Verification of Hybrid Power Controller Using Indoor HIL Test for the Solar UAV

S Jung - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
A hybrid power system (HPS) is developed for the photovoltaic (PV) powered and tethered
multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based on the robot operating system (ROS) and …

A Virtual Reality Environment for Developing and Testing Autonomous UAV-Based Structural Inspection

X Peng, G Su, ZQ Chen, R Sengupta - European Workshop on Structural …, 2022 - Springer
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with imaging and laser sensors have shown
their benefits in structural health inspection due to their aerial mobility, low cost, and …

Development of control laws of unmanned aerial vehicles for performing group flight at the straight-line horizontal flight stage

O Barabash, A Kyrianov - Advanced Information Systems, 2023 - ais.khpi.edu.ua
The article proposes an improved approach to controlling groups of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) aimed at increasing the overall efficiency and flexibility of the control …

Constructing 3-Dimentional (3D) Model Using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) on Aerial Informatics and Robotics Simulation (AirSim) for UAV

TH Minn, CM Wei, LE Boon, MS Santhiran… - … : Theory and Practice, 2022 - Springer
Topographic surveys are conducted to identify elevation features of the areas in which
construction projects are planned to be built. The use of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) …

Indoor vehicle-in-the-loop simulation of unmanned micro aerial vehicle with artificial companion

A Hiba, V Kortvelyesi, A Kiskaroly… - 2023 International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vehicle-in-the-loop simulation is an extension of the well-known hardware-in-the-loop
technique, where a vehicle moves in real space while a simulator generates input for …

Development of Multi-Quadrotor Simulator Based on Real-Time Hypervisor Systems

MF Fathoni, S Lee, Y Kim, KI Kim, KH Kim - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
Today, simulator technology has been widely used as an important part of quadrotor
development such as validation and testing. A good quadrotor simulator can simulate the …