Over the last decade, there has been an increased interest in developing aerial robotic
platforms that exhibit grasping and perching capabilities not only within the research …

Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an unstable system, so it needs to be
controlled efficiently and intelligently. Moreover, due to its non-linear, coupled, and under …

Abstract Drones or general Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), endowed with computer
vision function by on-board cameras and embedded systems, have become popular in a …

Real-time scene parsing through object detection running on an embedded device is very
challenging, due to limited memory and computing power of embedded devices. To deal …

Smart cities are made of different interconnected components that exchange data and
facilitate the urban living for citizens. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, known as drones, are …

There has been aa significant increase in the popularity of using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAVs), popularly known as drones, in several applications. In many application scenarios …

Real-time object detection is crucial for many applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAVs) such as reconnaissance and surveillance, search-and-rescue, and infrastructure …

In recent years, small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, have
demonstrated their promising capabilities in supporting a range of applications, such as …

Throughout the world, many highway workers and road users face safety hazards
associated with bridges. ASCE estimates that one in nine of the nation's bridges are rated as …

This paper presents the design of a multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of
landing semiautomatically on a power line while carrying a payload. The vehicle then rolls …