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Use of unmanned aerial vehicles in monitoring application and management of natural hazards

open access: yesGeomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2017
The recent development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been increasing the number of technical solutions that can be used to monitor and map the effects of natural hazards.
D. Giordan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of Multiple UAV Collaborative Driving Systems for Improving Field Phenotyping

open access: yesSensors, 2022
Unmanned aerial vehicle-based remote sensing technology has recently been widely applied to crop monitoring due to the rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicles, and these technologies have considerable potential in smart agriculture applications ...
Hyeon-Seung Lee   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bioinspired Adaptive Leg‐Claw Enables Robust Perching and Grasping for UAVs

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Inspired by owl limb morphology and bat roosting behavior, this study presents a bioinspired adaptive leg‐claw mechanism that enables UAVs to perform robust and versatile perching and grasping. The design integrates a four‐link tibial structure, tension‐driven deformable feet, and active control, enabling stable perching on various branches and ...
Tianyu Cheng   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tilt-X: Development of a Pitch-Axis Tiltrotor Quadcopter for Maximizing Horizontal Pulling Force and Yaw Moment

open access: yesApplied Sciences
In recent years, there has been a significant amount of research on tiltrotor multicopter unmanned aerial vehicles (TM-UAVs) in aerial robotics. Despite the varying frame types of TM-UAVs, they all still aim to decouple the propeller from the body, which
Xiaodi Tao, Seong Young Ko
doaj   +1 more source

Conformal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A Cylindrical Geometry Perspective

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Cylindrical reconfigurable intelligent surfaces are explored for low‐complexity beam steering using one‐bit meta‐atoms. A multi‐level modeling approach, including optimization‐based synthesis, demonstrates that even minimal hardware can support directive scattering.
Filippo Pepe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Air Mobility—A 6G Use Case?

open access: yesFrontiers in Communications and Networks, 2021
The increasing popularity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has resulted in exponential growth of the market owing to numerous applications that have been facilitated by advances in battery technology and wireless communications.
Shuja Ansari   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Design of Ad Hoc Wireless Mesh Networks Formed by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Advanced Mechanical Automation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Ad hoc wireless mesh networks formed by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with wireless transceivers (access points (APs)) are increasingly being touted as being able to provide a flexible "on-the-fly" communications infrastructure that can ...
Mandayam, Narayan B., Shinkuma, Ryoichi
core   +1 more source

Terahertz Channel Modeling, Estimation and Localization in RIS‐Assisted Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have become a recent intensive research focus. Based on practical applications, channel strategies for RIS‐assisted terahertz wireless communication systems are categorized into three different types: channel modeling, channel estimation, and channel localization.
Hongjing Wang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Mapping Plantation Area

open access: yesTelekontran : Jurnal Ilmiah Telekomunikasi, Kendali dan Elektronika Terapan, 2019
The development of oil palm plantations from the beginning of planting in 1848 until now can be said to be very significant. As the largest palm oil production country in the world Indonesia has many developing palm oil companies, both national and international.
Sugeng, Sugeng   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Detecting Invasive Insects with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

open access: yes, 2019
A key aspect to controlling and reducing the effects invasive insect species have on agriculture is to obtain knowledge about the migration patterns of these species.
Leskey, Tracy   +6 more
core   +1 more source

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