UAV-based studies in railway infrastructure monitoring

P Aela, HL Chi, A Fares, T Zayed, M Kim - Automation in Construction, 2024 - Elsevier
This review paper provides a comprehensive overview of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
applications in railway infrastructure studies, with a specific focus on railway track …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review of uav-ugv collaboration: Advancements and challenges

I Munasinghe, A Perera, RC Deo - Journal of Sensor and Actuator …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have rapidly
evolved, becoming integral to various applications such as environmental monitoring …

Drone rotational triboelectric nanogenerator for supplemental power generation and RPM sensing

JM Almardi, X Bo, J Shi, I Firdous, WA Daoud - Nano Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
The global drone market is a multibillion-dollar industry that is experiencing rapid growth.
While drones are commonly used for aerial photography, videography, surveying, search …

Robust robotic search and rescue in harsh environments: An example and open challenges

S Solmaz, P Innerwinkler, M Wójcik… - … on Robotic and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The deployment of autonomous robots in harsh and unpredictable environments has gained
significant attention in recent years, driven by the need to improve safety and efficiency in …

[HTML][HTML] Deploying UAV-based detection of bridge structural deterioration with pilgrimage walk optimization-lite for computer vision

JS Chou, CY Liu, PJ Guo - Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Bridges are crucial components of national infrastructure, requiring rigorous maintenance
and inspections to ensure their safety and functionality. Inspections are incredibly …

An intelligent BIM-enabled digital twin framework for real-time structural health monitoring using wireless IoT sensing, digital signal processing, and structural analysis

X Hu, G Olgun, RH Assaad - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructure is critically important due to its direct
influence on public safety and economic activities. Exiting Building Information Modeling …

Odor source localization in outdoor building environments through distributed cooperative control of a fleetof UAVs

M Jabeen, QH Meng, HR Hou, HY Li - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Locating the odor source in an outdoor building environment using autonomous vehicles
poses a considerable challenge. To address these challenges, researchers have explored …

An Intelligent Cloud-Based IoT-Enabled Multimodal Edge Sensing Device for Automated, Real-Time, Comprehensive, and Standardized Water Quality Monitoring and …

M Mohammadi, G Assaf, RH Assaad… - Journal of Computing in …, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
Amid escalating global challenges such as population growth, pollution, and climate
change, access to safe and clean water has emerged as a critical issue. It is estimated that …

Unmanned aerial vehicle fault diagnosis based on ensemble deep learning model

Q Huang, B Liang, X Dai, S Su… - … Science and Technology, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
To address the problems of external interference during unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
flight and the low accuracy and weak generalization ability of the current single fault …

Unsupervised semantic segmentation of high-resolution UAV imagery for road scene parsing

Z Ma, Y Li, R Ma, C Liang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.02985, 2024 - arxiv.org
Two challenges are presented when parsing road scenes in UAV images. First, the high
resolution of UAV images makes processing difficult. Second, supervised deep learning …