A survey of collaborative UAV–WSN systems for efficient monitoring

D Popescu, F Stoican, G Stamatescu, O Chenaru… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Integrated systems based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) with electric propulsion are emerging as state-of-the-art solutions for large …

Mixed-integer programming in motion planning

D Ioan, I Prodan, S Olaru, F Stoican… - Annual Reviews in Control, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of past and present results and approaches in the area of
motion planning using MIP (Mixed-integer Programming). Although in the early 2000s MIP …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): A survey on civil applications and key research challenges

H Shakhatreh, AH Sawalmeh, A Al-Fuqaha, Z Dou… - Ieee …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil
application domains, including real-time monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote …

Softwarization of UAV networks: A survey of applications and future trends

OS Oubbati, M Atiquzzaman, TA Ahanger… - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly important in assisting 5G and
beyond 5G (B5G) mobile networks. Indeed, UAVs have all the potentials to both satisfy the …

LoRa communications as an enabler for internet of drones towards large-scale livestock monitoring in rural farms

M Behjati, AB Mohd Noh, HAH Alobaidy, MA Zulkifley… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Currently, smart farming is considered an effective solution to enhance the productivity of
farms; thereby, it has recently received broad interest from service providers to offer a wide …

Collection of data with drones in precision agriculture: Analytical model and LoRa case study

A Caruso, S Chessa, S Escolar… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are autonomous devices employed as data collectors in
precision agriculture to support a large number of applications. These UAVs gather data …

Efficient aerial data collection with cooperative trajectory planning for large-scale wireless sensor networks

Y Zhu, S Wang - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the flexibility and agility, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising way for
gathering data generated by wireless sensor networks. However, the limited battery capacity …

The potential of unmanned aerial systems for sea turtle research and conservation: a review and future directions

AF Rees, L Avens, K Ballorain, E Bevan… - Endangered Species …, 2018 - int-res.com
The use of satellite systems and manned aircraft surveys for remote data collection has been
shown to be transformative for sea turtle conservation and research by enabling the …

UAV-enabled healthcare architecture: Issues and challenges

S Ullah, KI Kim, KH Kim, M Imran, P Khan… - Future Generation …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have great potential to revolutionize the future of
automotive, energy, and healthcare sectors by working as wireless relays to improve …

Connectivity and coverage based protocols for wireless sensor networks

A Boukerche, P Sun - Ad Hoc Networks, 2018 - Elsevier
A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of a group of energy-constrained sensor nodes
with the ability of both sensing and communication, which can be deployed in a field of …