The days where swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will occupy our skies are fast
approaching due to the introduction of cost-efficient and reliable small aerial vehicles and …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS–aka drones) have evolved over the past decade
as both advanced military technology and off-the-shelf consumer devices. There is a gradual …

Small drones are being utilized in monitoring, transport, safety and disaster management,
and other domains. Envisioning that drones form autonomous networks incorporated into …

Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used in many different applications.
Using systems of multiple UAVs is the next obvious step in the process of applying this …

Due to a growing number of people who carry out various adrenaline activities or adventure
tourism and stay in the mountains and other inaccessible places, there is an increasing …

This paper proposes and evaluates a modular architecture of an autonomous unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) system for search and rescue missions. Multiple multicopters are …

The past few decades have witnessed great progress for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
in civilian fields, especially in photogrammetry and remote sensing. In contrast with manned …

Corrosion is considered a destructive phenomenon that affects almost all metals. There is a
variety of corrosion monitoring and measurement techniques being deployed across …

The deployment of multiple robots for achieving a common goal helps to improve the
performance, efficiency, and/or robustness in a variety of tasks. In particular, the observation …

Rice lodging identification relies on manual in situ assessment and often leads to a
compensation dispute in agricultural disaster assessment. Therefore, this study proposes a …