Unmanned aerial vehicles: Control methods and future challenges

Z Zuo, C Liu, QL Han, J Song - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of computer technology, automatic control technology and
communication technology, research on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted …

mm-Pose: Real-time human skeletal posture estimation using mmWave radars and CNNs

A Sengupta, F Jin, R Zhang, S Cao - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, mm-Pose, a novel approach to detect and track human skeletons in real-time
using an mmWave radar, is proposed. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first …

[图书][B] Small unmanned aircraft: Theory and practice

RW Beard, TW McLain - 2012 - books.google.com
Autonomous unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are critical to current and future military, civil,
and commercial operations. Despite their importance, no previous textbook has accessibly …

Enabling technologies for autonomous MAV operations

M Elbanhawi, A Mohamed, R Clothier… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2017 - Elsevier
The utility of micro air vehicles (MAVs) has expanded significantly in the last decade, and
there are now numerous commercial systems available at relatively low cost. This expansion …

Vision-based finite-time uncooperative target tracking for UAV subject to actuator saturation

P Sun, B Zhu, Z Zuo, MV Basin - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, a vision-based finite-time control is proposed for an unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) subject to actuator saturation to track an uncooperative target. The finite-time control …

Vision-based target geo-location using a fixed-wing miniature air vehicle

DB Barber, JD Redding, TW McLain, RW Beard… - Journal of Intelligent and …, 2006 - Springer
This paper presents a method for determining the GPS location of a ground-based object
when imaged from a fixed-wing miniature air vehicle (MAV). Using the pixel location of the …

Moving path following for unmanned aerial vehicles with applications to single and multiple target tracking problems

T Oliveira, AP Aguiar… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces the moving path following (MPF) problem, in which a vehicle is
required to converge to and follow a desired geometric moving path, without a specific …

Object detection, recognition, and tracking from UAVs using a thermal camera

FS Leira, HH Helgesen, TA Johansen… - Journal of Field …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper a multiple object detection, recognition, and tracking system for unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been studied. The system can be implemented on any UAVs …

Autonomous landing of a quadrotor on a moving platform

J Ghommam, M Saad - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the design of a navigation control algorithm for the autonomous
landing of a quadrotor on a moving mobile platform. The quadrotor's velocity is unknown …

Energy efficient mobile target tracking using flying drones

D Zorbas, T Razafindralambo, F Guerriero - Procedia Computer Science, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the energy efficiency problem where camera equipped flying drones
are able to detect and follow mobile events that happen on the ground. We give a …