, 2020 Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles are complex systems of hardware, software, and human input. Understanding this complexity is key to their development and operation.
Borkin, Michelle A. +4 more
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Remotely piloted aircraft systems and a wireless sensors network for radiological accidents [PDF]
, 2016 In critical radiological situations, the real time information that we could get from the disaster area becomes of great importance. However, communication systems could be affected after a radiological accident.
Barrado Muxí, Cristina +4 more
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Improving the Best-Worst Method Based on Optimal Completion of Incomplete Pairwise Comparison Matrix
IEEE Access, 2022 In this paper, the pairwise comparison matrix (PCM) of the best-worst method (BWM) is regarded as a special incomplete PCM (IPCM), and an improved method based on the optimal completion of the IPCM, called BWM-IPCM, is proposed.
Shihui Wu, Bo He, Xiaodong Liu
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Intelligent Segmentation and Change Detection of Dams Based on UAV Remote Sensing Images
Remote Sensing, 2023 Guilin is situated in the southern part of China with abundant rainfall. There are 137 reservoirs, which are widely used for irrigation, flood control, water supply and power generation.
Haimeng Zhao +9 more
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Mapping and classification of ecologically sensitive marine habitats using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery and object-based image analysis (OBIA) [PDF]
, 2018 Nowadays, emerging technologies, such as long-range transmitters, increasingly miniaturized components for positioning, and enhanced imaging sensors, have led to an upsurge in the availability of new ecological applications for remote sensing based on ...
Ardizzone, Domenico +4 more
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Automated identification of river hydromorphological features using UAV high resolution aerial imagery [PDF]
, 2015 European legislation is driving the development of methods for river ecosystem protection in light of concerns over water quality and ecology. Key to their success is the accurate and rapid characterisation of physical features (i.e., hydromorphology ...
Ballesteros Gonzalez, Rocio +3 more
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A survey on fractional order control techniques for unmanned aerial and ground vehicles [PDF]
, 2019 In recent years, numerous applications of science and engineering for modeling and control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) systems based on fractional calculus have been realized.
Cajo Diaz, Ricardo Alfredo +5 more
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Detection of irrigation inhomogeneities in an olive grove using the NDRE vegetation index obtained from UAV images [PDF]
, 2019 We have developed a simple photogrammetric method to identify heterogeneous areas of irrigated olive groves and vineyard crops using a commercial multispectral camera mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Jorge Sánchez, Juan +2 more
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Characteristic Analysis on UAV-MIMO Channel Based on Normalized Correlation Matrix
The Scientific World Journal, 2014 Based on the three-dimensional GBSBCM (geometrically based double bounce cylinder model) channel model of MIMO for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the simple form of UAV space-time-frequency channel correlation function which includes the LOS, SPE, and ...
Gao Xi jun, Chen Zi li, Hu Yong Jiang
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Robust hovering control of a quad tilt-wing UAV [PDF]
, 2010 This paper presents design of a robust hovering controller for a quad tilt-wing UAV to hover at a desired position under external wind and aerodynamic disturbances. Wind and the aerodynamic disturbances are modeled using the Dryden model.
Cetinsoy, Ertugrul +9 more
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