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Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.Quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle control is critical to maintain flight safety and efficiency, especially when facing external disturbances and model uncertainties. This article presents a robust reinforcement learning control scheme to deal with these challenges.
Yu Cai +3 more
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Dignity's Dilemma: Categorical Objections to Autonomous Weapons and Their Pacifist Entailments
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Dignity objections to autonomous weapon systems are prominent in contemporary military ethics, yet their theoretical foundations remain underexamined. This article reconstructs those foundations, showing what categorical dignity objections require to function as absolute prohibitions.
Timothy Dubber
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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land degradation is a critical global challenge, threatening biodiversity, food security, and livelihoods. Ecological restoration has therefore become a priority, with aerial seeding emerging as a key method to address issues of scale, accessibility, and efficiency. By dispersing seeds from aircraft or drones, aerial seeding complements ground‐
James Maua +4 more
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Air Risk Maps for Unmanned Aircraft in Urban Environments [PDF]
, 2022 The increasing use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) over inhabited areas requires the use of a suitable risk assessment. In this paper, we propose the use of air risk maps to assess the risk to people caused by mid-air collision accidents during a UAS ...
Giorgio Guglieri +2 more
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Sliding Mode Control in Aerospace Applications: A Survey
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sliding mode control (SMC) enjoys robustness to matched and unmatched (in the case of minimum phase input‐output dynamics) bounded perturbations, and finite time convergence. Second‐order and higher‐order sliding mode control systems (2‐SMC/HOSMC) retain all the advantages of sliding mode control, but in addition can be applied to systems of ...
Yuri Shtessel, Christopher Edwards
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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.We evaluated single‐ and multi‐sensor UAV approaches for classifying tree species and standing dead trees in boreal forests, focusing on key biodiversity indicators such as European aspen. Using spectral and structural features extracted from RGB, multispectral (MSP), and LiDAR point clouds for 1,205 field‐measured trees, we compared classification ...
Anton Kuzmin +5 more
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Directive Antenna Clutter Loss in Slant Paths
International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the development of a clutter loss model specifically for slant paths involving directive antennas. Conventionally, clutter loss is characterized by using isotropic antennas to facilitate standard link budget calculations via single antenna gain values.
Fernando Pérez Fontán +4 more
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Systems Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Complex engineered systems routinely face schedule and cost overruns, along with poor post‐deployment performance. Both INCOSE and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) have championed Digital Engineering (DE) as a potential remedy, yet most of DE's purported benefits remain anecdotal, and its return on investment (ROI) remains poorly ...
Jannatul Shefa, Taylan G. Topcu
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Future of edge AI in biodiversity monitoring
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Many ecological decisions are slowed by the gap between collecting and analysing biodiversity information. Edge computing moves data processing closer to the sensor, with edge artificial intelligence (AI) using AI models for data processing and selective data transfer.
Aude Vuilliomenet +2 more
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Optimizing equity and efficiency in the aerial firefighting resource allocation problem
International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.Abstract This study addresses the aerial firefighting resource allocation problem, formulated as the strategic prepositioning of a heterogeneous aerial firefighting fleet across capacity‐constrained airbases. A novel bi‐objective model is proposed that simultaneously optimizes efficiency (aggregate risk‐weighted accessibility) and equity (minimized ...
Konstantinos A. Tasias, George Nenes
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