The design and control of drones remain areas of active research, and here we review
recent progress in this field. In this article, we discuss the design objectives and related …

The chapter explores the integration of drones, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
(AI) in smart city development. Drones can revolutionize urban planning, energy efficiency …

This paper proposes a systematic solution that uses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to
aggressively and safely track an agile target. It properly handles the challenging situations …

Perching on the moving platforms is a promising solution to enhance the endurance and
operational range of quadrotors, which could benefit the efficiency of a variety of air ground …

This paper proposes Elastic Tracker, a flexible trajectory planning framework that can deal
with challenging tracking tasks with guaranteed safety and visibility. Firstly, an object …

The visibility of targets determines performance and even success rate of various
applications, such as active slam, exploration, and target tracking. Therefore, it is crucial to …

We present two real-time trajectory optimizers based on the Cross-Entropy Method for
visibility-aware navigation. The two approaches differ in handling inequality constraints …

Target tracking has numerous significant civilian and military applications, and maintaining
the visibility of the target plays a vital role in ensuring the success of the tracking task …

Motion planning with visual perception is a hot topic for autonomous flight of micro aerial
vehicles (MAVs). However, many existing works fail to be implemented in realistic scenarios …

In recent years, several progressive studies promote the development of aerial tracking. One
of the representative studies is our previous work Fast‐Tracker which is applicable to …