A literature review of drone-based package delivery logistics systems and their implementation feasibility

T Benarbia, K Kyamakya - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent years, e-commerce businesses have seen an increase in the daily volume of
packages to be delivered, as well as an increase in the number of particularly demanding …

Digital earth: yesterday, today, and tomorrow

A Annoni, S Nativi, A Çöltekin, C Desha… - … Journal of Digital …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The concept of Digital Earth (DE) was formalized by Al Gore in 1998. At that time
the technologies needed for its implementation were in an embryonic stage and the concept …

Last mile delivery by drones: An estimation of viable market potential and access to citizens across European cities

JP Aurambout, K Gkoumas, B Ciuffo - European Transport Research …, 2019 - Springer
Rapid technological developments in autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV or
drones) and an evolving legislation may soon open the way for their large-scale …

Advances in unmanned aerial system remote sensing for precision viticulture

A Sassu, F Gambella, L Ghiani, L Mercenaro, M Caria… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
New technologies for management, monitoring, and control of spatio-temporal crop
variability in precision viticulture scenarios are numerous. Remote sensing relies on sensors …

Model predictive control for quadcopters with almost global trajectory tracking guarantees

ARP Andriën, E Lefeber, DJ Antunes… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article provides a new method for trajectory tracking for quadcopters following a
cascaded control approach with formal closed-loop tracking guarantees. An outer-loop …

From here to 2023: Civil drones operations and the setting of new legal rules for the European single sky

E Bassi - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2020 - Springer
The paper deals with the legal facets of the Single European Sky strategy and the reform of
today's European air traffic management network for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). The …

European drones regulation: Today's legal challenges

E Bassi - 2019 international conference on unmanned aircraft …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The drone legal framework represents a multilevel and complex field of EU law. The new
2018 Regulation sets up a centralized system, in which the main ruling powers are devolved …

[HTML][HTML] A drone hop from the local shop? Where could drone delivery as a service happen in Europe and the USA, and how many people could benefit from it?

JP Aurambout, K Gkoumas, B Ciuffo - Transportation Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid technological and regulatory evolution in the field of autonomous unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAV or drones) may soon open the way for their deployment in the last mile …

Development of a fixed-wing drone system for aerial insect sampling

M Mulero-Pázmány, JR Martínez-de Dios… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Most current insect research techniques are ground-based and provide scarce information
about flying insects in the planetary boundary layer (PBL), which remains a poorly studied …

The strategic responses of start-ups to regulatory constraints in the nascent drone market

KV Andersen, MH Frederiksen, MP Knudsen… - Research policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Some start-ups treat regulatory constraints as exogenous and beyond their control, while
other start-ups treat regulatory constraints as endogenous and possible to influence …