Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): Practical aspects, applications, open challenges, security issues, and future trends

SAH Mohsan, NQH Othman, Y Li, MH Alsharif… - Intelligent Service …, 2023 - Springer
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have emerged as a ubiquitous and
integral part of our society. They appear in great diversity in a multiplicity of applications for …

A comprehensive review of recent research trends on unmanned aerial vehicles (uavs)

K Telli, O Kraa, Y Himeur, A Ouamane, M Boumehraz… - Systems, 2023 - mdpi.com
The growing interest in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from both the scientific and
industrial sectors has attracted a wave of new researchers and substantial investments in …

UAV platforms and the SfM-MVS approach in the 3D surveys and modelling: A review in the cultural heritage field

M Pepe, VS Alfio, D Costantino - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, structure from motion (SfM) and multi-view stereo (MVS) algorithms have
been successfully applied to stereo images generated by cameras mounted on unmanned …

Intelligent reflecting surfaces assisted UAV communications for massive networks: current trends, challenges, and research directions

SAH Mohsan, MA Khan, MH Alsharif, P Uthansakul… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can intelligently configure wavefronts such as
amplitude, frequency, phase, and even polarization through passive reflections and without …

Coverage path planning optimization of heterogeneous UAVs group for precision agriculture

RI Mukhamediev, K Yakunin, M Aubakirov… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precision farming is one of the ways of transition to the intensive methods of agricultural
production. The case of application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for solving …

Multi-UAV collaborative absolute vision positioning and navigation: a survey and discussion

P Tong, X Yang, Y Yang, W Liu, P Wu - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
The employment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has greatly facilitated the lives of
humans. Due to the mass manufacturing of consumer unmanned aerial vehicles and the …

An electromagnetic energy harvester for applications in a high-speed rail pavement system

H Cao, L Kong, M Tang, Z Zhang, X Wu, L Lu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting from ambient environment is one of the effective solutions to supply
power for low power electronic devices. There are still some challenges such as poor space …

Role of drone technology helping in alleviating the COVID-19 pandemic

SAH Mohsan, QA Zahra, MA Khan, MH Alsharif… - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by a new coronavirus, has affected economic and social
standards as governments and healthcare regulatory agencies throughout the world …

Advances and challenges in drone detection and classification techniques: A state-of-the-art review

U Seidaliyeva, L Ilipbayeva, K Taissariyeva, N Smailov… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The fast development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, has
brought a unique set of opportunities and challenges to both the civilian and military sectors …

Aerial: A meta review and discussion of challenges toward unmanned aerial vehicle operations in logistics, mobility, and monitoring

S Wandelt, S Wang, C Zheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There exists a tremendous number of research surveys on various aspects of UAV logistics,
mobility and monitoring tasks in the literature. These surveys have been published in distinct …