Computer vision for autonomous UAV flight safety: An overview and a vision-based safe landing pipeline example

E Kakaletsis, C Symeonidis, M Tzelepi… - Acm Computing …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have seen an unprecedented spread of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or
“drones”), which are highly useful for both civilian and military applications. Flight safety is a …

Swarm of micro flying robots in the wild

X Zhou, X Wen, Z Wang, Y Gao, H Li, Q Wang… - Science Robotics, 2022 - science.org
Aerial robots are widely deployed, but highly cluttered environments such as dense forests
remain inaccessible to drones and even more so to swarms of drones. In these scenarios …

Autonomous UAV cinematography: A tutorial and a formalized shot-type taxonomy

I Mademlis, N Nikolaidis, A Tefas, I Pitas… - ACM Computing …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The emerging field of autonomous UAV cinematography is examined through a tutorial for
non-experts, which also presents the required underlying technologies and connections with …

A dynamic artificial potential field (D-APF) UAV path planning technique for following ground moving targets

HM Jayaweera, S Hanoun - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Path planning is a vital and challenging component in the support of Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs) and their deployment in autonomous missions, such as following ground …

Triboelectricity Based Self‐Powered Digital Displacement Sensor for Aircraft Flight Actuation

Z Zhou, Z Xu, LNY Cao, H Sheng, C Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is on the rise across various industries.
In such a scenario, the issue of flight safety for these UAVs becomes increasingly …

QoS-compliant 3-D deployment optimization strategy for UAV base stations

X Zhong, Y Huo, X Dong, Z Liang - IEEE Systems Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being integrated as an active element in 5G and
beyond networks. Because of their flexibility and mobility, UAV base stations (UAV-BSs) can …

The p-destre: A fully annotated dataset for pedestrian detection, tracking, and short/long-term re-identification from aerial devices

SVA Kumar, E Yaghoubi, A Das… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been regarded as a potential
solution to surveil public spaces, providing a cheap way for data collection, while covering …

Online UAV trajectory planning for covert video surveillance of mobile targets

H Huang, AV Savkin, W Ni - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article considers the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for covert video
surveillance of a mobile target on the ground and presents a new online UAV trajectory …

[PDF][PDF] A secure communication protocol for unmanned aerial vehicles

NA Khan, NZ Jhanjhi, SN Brohi… - … -computers Materials & …, 2022 - academia.edu
Mavlink is a lightweight and most widely used open-source communication protocol used for
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Multiple UAVs and autopilot systems support it, and it provides …

Autonomous aerial filming with distributed lighting by a team of unmanned aerial vehicles

V Krátký, A Alcántara, J Capitán… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter describes a method for autonomous aerial cinematography with distributed
lighting by a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Although camera-carrying multi-rotor …