[HTML][HTML] UAV in the advent of the twenties: Where we stand and what is next

F Nex, C Armenakis, M Cramer, DA Cucci… - ISPRS journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has surged in the last two decades,
making them popular instruments for a wide range of applications, and leading to a …

Eyes in the sky: drones applications in the built environment under climate change challenges

N Bayomi, JE Fernandez - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews the diverse applications of drone technologies in the built environment
and their role in climate change research. Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

Towards real-time monocular depth estimation for robotics: A survey

X Dong, MA Garratt, SG Anavatti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an essential component for many autonomous driving and robotic activities such as ego-
motion estimation, obstacle avoidance and scene understanding, monocular depth …

Memory-based deep reinforcement learning for obstacle avoidance in UAV with limited environment knowledge

A Singla, S Padakandla… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents our method for enabling a UAV quadrotor, equipped with a monocular
camera, to autonomously avoid collisions with obstacles in unstructured and unknown …

CNN-based dense monocular visual SLAM for real-time UAV exploration in emergency conditions

A Steenbeek, F Nex - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for 3D indoor mapping applications are often equipped
with bulky and expensive sensors, such as LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) or depth …

A comprehensive survey on non‐cooperative collision avoidance for micro aerial vehicles: Sensing and obstacle detection

L Lu, G Fasano, A Carrio, M Lei, H Bavle… - Journal of Field …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been confirmed as a powerful tool
for countless applications in nearly every industry, in which collision avoidance plays a vital …

[HTML][HTML] A review of UAV autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments

Y Chang, Y Cheng, U Manzoor, J Murray - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have drawn increased research interest in recent years,
leading to a vast number of applications, such as, terrain exploration, disaster assistance …

Waterline and obstacle detection in images from low-cost autonomous boats for environmental monitoring

L Steccanella, DD Bloisi, A Castellini… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Waterline detection from images taken by cameras mounted on low-cost autonomous
surface vehicles (ASVs) is a key process for obtaining a fast obstacle detection. Achieving …

Automatic obstacle avoidance of quadrotor UAV via CNN-based learning

X Dai, Y Mao, T Huang, N Qin, D Huang, Y Li - Neurocomputing, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, a CNN-based learning scheme is proposed to enable a quadrotor unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) to avoid obstacles automatically in unknown and unstructured …

Learning to fly by myself: A self-supervised cnn-based approach for autonomous navigation

A Kouris, CS Bouganis - 2018 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly popular facilitated
by their extensive availability. Autonomous navigation methods can act as an enabler for the …