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Path Planning for Cooperative Routing of Air-Ground Vehicles

open access: yes, 2016
We consider a cooperative vehicle routing problem for surveillance and reconnaissance missions with communication constraints between the vehicles.
Casbeer, David   +2 more
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Special Issue on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2020
This editorial paper was a special issue of Applied Sciences belonging to the section of mechanical engineering in MDPI journal and summarized the collected manuscripts regarding the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) related technologies, including communication, control, collision avoidance, modeling, path planning, human-machine interface (HMI ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Cooperative Mission Planning [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 2017
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a kind of new operational platform possessing ability to flight autonomously and perform independently a task,which can not only carry out non-attack tasks,such as military reconnaissance, surveillance and search, but also to carry out tasks to air-to-ground attacking, target bombing and so on.
openaire   +1 more source

The dawn of the age of the drones: an Australian privacy law perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Examines Australia\u27s privacy laws in relation to unmanned aerial vehicles, to identify deficiencies that may need to be addressed. Introduction Suppose a homeowner habitually enjoys sunbathing in his or her backyard, protected by a high fence ...
Des Butler
core   +2 more sources

Research on adaptive shooting algorithm for unmanned aerial vehicles under typical operating conditions of overhead transmission lines

open access: yesAIP Advances
We consider typical environmental conditions, such as different shooting backgrounds, lighting, and shooting distances, and study adaptive shooting algorithms for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on-site environments under typical working conditions to ...
Zifeng Fu, Hongwei Hu, Zhuang Liu
doaj   +1 more source

Energy-efficient joint UAV secure communication and 3D trajectory optimization assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in the presence of eavesdroppers

open access: yesDefence Technology
We consider a scenario where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a typical unmanned aerial system (UAS), transmits confidential data to a moving ground target in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. Multiple friendly reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (
Huang Hailong   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cooperative UAV–UGV Autonomous Power Pylon Inspection: An Investigation of Cooperative Outdoor Vehicle Positioning Architecture

open access: yesSensors, 2020
Realizing autonomous inspection, such as that of power distribution lines, through unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems is a key research domain in robotics.
Alvaro Cantieri   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quadcopter Modeling Using a System for UAV Parameters Measurement

open access: yesDrones
This article deals with quadcopter modeling using a system for the measurement of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) parameters. UAVs are often equipped with various measurement devices and equipment for measurement, which significantly affects their weight ...
Jozef Novotňák   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

An operational solution to acquire multispectral images with standard light cameras : Characterization and acquisition guidelines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In order to develop a low-cost and easy to implement technical solution to map inside-field spatial variability, and to explore its relationship with crop conditions, several experiments were conducted using ultra-light aircraft and Unmanned Aerial ...
Bégué, Agnès   +4 more
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Editorial for “Remote Sensing from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2018
The recent proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms has greatly increased our ability to remotely sense the Earth’s surface from the air at particularly low altitudes. [...]
William J. Emery, John Schmalzel
doaj   +1 more source

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