Disguised tailing and visual monitoring of suspicious mobile targets is a promising
application of security unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). But trajectory planning is non …

Autonomous tracking of suspicious unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by legitimate
monitoring UAVs (or monitors) can be crucial to public safety and security. It is non-trivial to …

In this paper, energy optimal surveillance trajectories for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
are explored. The main objective is to have maximum sensor coverage range while …

The applications of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled visual monitoring span the
areas of public security, nature resilience, and disaster rescue. Covertness can play an …

Fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a practical means for data collection
in many Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. Secrecy and energy efficiency are crucial to …

Thanks to their quick placement and high flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can
be very useful in the current and future wireless communication systems. With a growing …

With devastating natural disasters on the rise, technological improvements are needed in
the field of search and rescue (SAR). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) would be ideal for …

THE development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been an important stream in
both the military and civil aviation industry for decades and will continue to draw great …

The conversion efficiency of solar energy and the capacity of energy storage batteries are
the key technologies limiting the development of solar-powered aircraft. In this paper, a …

This paper explores the benefits and challenges of using solar energy to power unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance purposes. The task of persistent surveillance requires …