A review of physics simulators for robotic applications

J Collins, S Chand, A Vanderkop, D Howard - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of simulators in robotics research is widespread, underpinning the majority of recent
advances in the field. There are now more options available to researchers than ever before …

[HTML][HTML] Digital-PV: A digital twin-based platform for autonomous aerial monitoring of large-scale photovoltaic power plants

M Kolahi, SM Esmailifar, AMM Sizkouhi… - Energy Conversion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel digital twin-based solution called Digital-PV has been developed for
the simulation and managed execution of autonomous aerial monitoring of photovoltaic (PV) …

[HTML][HTML] Self-supervised monocular depth estimation from oblique UAV videos

L Madhuanand, F Nex, MY Yang - ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become an essential photogrammetric
measurement as they are affordable, easily accessible and versatile. Aerial images captured …

Monocular depth estimation with improved long-range accuracy for UAV environment perception

VC Miclea, S Nedevschi - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Environment perception by computing the depth is a key task for unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) type systems. Due to the limited load they can carry, most drones are equipped with a …

Scene-aware refinement network for unsupervised monocular depth estimation in ultra-low altitude oblique photography of UAV

K Yu, H Li, L Xing, T Wen, D Fu, Y Yang, C Zhou… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Using depth estimation joint target detection networks to locate targets in the UAV field of
view is a novel application in the depth estimation research field. The presence of more …

A Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation Approach Based on UAV Aerial Images

Y Zhang, Q Yu, KH Low, C Lv - 2022 IEEE/AIAA 41st Digital …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained increasing attention recently, and depth
estimation is one of the essential tasks for the safe operation of UAVs, especially for drones …

MLFFNet: multilevel feature fusion network for monocular depth estimation from aerial images

H Xu, F Li, Z Feng - Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Convincing depth estimation from monocular aerial images is a fundamental task in
environment perception. We propose an efficient multilevel feature fusion network …

Survey on monocular depth estimation for unmanned aerial vehicles using deep learning

H Florea, S Nedevschi - 2022 IEEE 18th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning-based solutions for the ill-posed problem of Monocular Depth Estimation
(MDE) from 2D color images have shown potential in recent years, spurring a very active …

Enabling autonomous unmanned aerial systems via edge computing

K Liu, S Chauhan, R Devaraj, S Shahi… - … on Service-Oriented …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) have continuously demonstrated incredible value
assisting with disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes. For example, UASs can help …

Robotics in Metaverse

E Lee, E Kim, AJ Choi - Human-Centered Metaverse, 2025 - Elsevier
Human-robot interaction (HRI) and human-robot collaboration (HRC) have emerged by
researchers to address the convergence between intelligent robotics and the Metaverse …