Survey on coverage path planning with unmanned aerial vehicles

TM Cabreira, LB Brisolara, FJ Paulo R - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
Coverage path planning consists of finding the route which covers every point of a certain
area of interest. In recent times, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been employed in …

Grid-based coverage path planning with minimum energy over irregular-shaped areas with UAVs

TM Cabreira, PR Ferreira, C Di Franco… - … on unmanned aircraft …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Grid-based methods have been proposed to solve the Coverage Path Planning problem
using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in irregular-shaped areas since simple geometric flight …

UAV-based persistent full area coverage with dynamic priorities

L Feng, J Katupitiya - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper tackles the problem of performing persistent and complete coverage of a target
space with a minimum number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The UAVs are …

Guidance algorithm for smooth trajectory tracking of a fixed wing UAV flying in wind flows

HG De Marina, YA Kapitanyuk, M Bronz… - … on robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an algorithm for solving the problem of tracking smooth curves by a
fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle travelling with a constant airspeed and under a constant …

Strategies for patrolling missions with multiple UAVs

KS Kappel, TM Cabreira, JL Marins… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2020 - Springer
This paper proposes a set of strategies for the patrolling problem using multiple UAVs and
as a result, improving our original NC-Drone algorithm. We present four strategies …

Performance assessment of portable optical particle spectrometer (Pops)

F Mei, G McMeeking, M Pekour, RS Gao, G Kulkarni… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Accurate representation of atmospheric aerosol properties is a long-standing problem in
atmospheric research. Modern pilotless aerial systems provide a new platform for …

A compendium of radio resource management in UAV-assisted next generation computing paradigms

Z Shah, M Naeem, U Javed, W Ejaz, M Altaf - Ad Hoc Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have huge potential in empowering new applications in
different areas ranging from military to medical applications and traffic control to the …

Learning to predict the wind for safe aerial vehicle planning

F Achermann, NRJ Lawrance, R Ranftl… - … on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Obtaining an accurate estimate of the local wind remains a significant challenge for small
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Small UAVs often operate at low altitudes near terrain …

Efficient multi-robot inspection of row crops via kernel estimation and region-based task allocation

M Edmonds, J Yi - 2021 IEEE International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern agriculture relies on accurate and timely data. Currently, most of this data is
gathered using remote sensing, which uses a combination of satellite and aerial imagery …

Efficient spatio-temporal Gaussian regression via Kalman filtering

M Todescato, A Carron, R Carli, G Pillonetto… - Automatica, 2020 - Elsevier
We study the non-parametric reconstruction of spatio-temporal dynamical processes via
Gaussian Processes (GPs) regression from sparse and noisy data. GPs have been mainly …