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Zheng-Lian Su, Xun-Lin Jiang, Ning Li, Hai-Feng Ling et al. • Drones
(2022)
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used for target detection in modern battlefields. From the viewpoint of the opponents, false target jamming is an effective approach to decrease the UAV detection ability or probability, but ...
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DOI: 10.3390/drones6050114
Aravind SEENI, Bernd SCHÄFER • INCAS Bulletin
(2023)
The design process of a Mars rover is driven by multiple design constraints, namely overall mass, power consumption and volume (dimensions). Various systems, such as mobility, manipulation, handling, power, thermal, communication, navigatio...
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DOI: 10.13111/2066-8201.2023.15.1.8
Riccardo Polvara, Sanjay Sharma, Jian Wan, Andrew Manning et al. • Drones
(2018)
Autonomous landing on the deck of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) is still a major challenge for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this paper, a fiducial marker is located on the platform so as to facilitate the task since it is possibl...
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DOI: 10.3390/drones2020015
T. Yu. Gainutdinova, S. V. Novikova, V. G. Gainutdinov, M. V. Trusfus et al. • Вестник Самарского университета: Аэрокосмическая техника, технологии и машиностроение
(2023)
Algorithms for determining the attitude position of an aircraft or helicopter-type unmanned aerial vehicle relative to the landing platform with special optical marks are considered. An assessment is made of the possibility of calculating t...
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DOI: 10.18287/2541-7533-2023-22-4-37-51
Karen Anderson, Brandi M. Shabaga, Serge Wich, Geoff Fink et al. • Drone Systems and Applications
(2023)
Summary This journal (Drone Systems and Applications; DSA) conducted a targeted “horizon scan” during 2022 within our team of editors and associate editors. We asked—Which research areas currently under-represented in Drone Systems and Appl...
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DOI: 10.1139/dsa-2023-0019
Kirill Djebko, Patrick Schurk, Tom Baumann, Frank Puppe et al. • Aerospace
(2025)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming engineering fields, from robotics to aerospace, with applications in control systems for UAVs and satellites. This work builds on a previously developed AI attitude controller for the Inn...
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DOI: 10.3390/aerospace12121039
Tyrone Bright, Sarp Adali, Cristina Trois • Drones
(2025)
As the generation of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) has exponentially increased, this poses a challenge for waste managers, such as municipalities, to effectively control waste streams. If waste streams are not managed correctly, they negative...
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DOI: 10.3390/drones9080550
Prot Piyakawanich, Pattarapong Phasukkit • Drones
(2024)
In the rapidly evolving domain of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), precise altitude estimation remains a significant challenge, particularly for lightweight UAVs. This research presents an innovative approach to enhance altitude estimation ...
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DOI: 10.3390/drones8120718
Haotian Wu, Yan Guo, Juliang Cao, Zhiming Xiong et al. • Aerospace
(2025)
In response to the issues of severe pitch oscillation and unstable roll attitude present in existing reinforcement learning-based aircraft cruise control methods during dynamic maneuvers, this paper proposes a precise control method for air...
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DOI: 10.3390/aerospace12080670
Gabriel de Sousa Meira, João Victor Ferreira Guedes, Edilson de Souza Bias • Drones
(2024)
The use of geotechnologies in the field of diagnostic engineering has become ever more present in the identification of pathological manifestations in buildings. The implementation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and embedded sensors has...
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DOI: 10.3390/drones8070341
Galen Richardson, Sylvain G. Leblanc, Julie Lovitt, Krishan Rajaratnam et al. • Drones
(2021)
Relating ground photographs to UAV orthomosaics is a key linkage required for accurate multi-scaled lichen mapping. Conventional methods of multi-scaled lichen mapping, such as random forest models and convolutional neural networks, heavily...
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DOI: 10.3390/drones5030099
Buhong Wang, Jin Xiao, Ruochen Dong, Chengkai Piao et al. • Aerospace
(2026)
Satellite networks are essential to global connectivity yet face severe multidimensional cybersecurity threats. This systematic review conducts a holistic analysis of threats across the physical, network, and user layers. We propose the Sat...
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DOI: 10.3390/aerospace13030249
Shangzhe Sun, Chi Chen, Bisheng Yang, Zhengfei Yan et al. • Drones
(2024)
The global rise in electricity demand necessitates extensive transmission infrastructure, where insulators play a critical role in ensuring the safe operation of power transmission systems. However, insulators are susceptible to burst defec...
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DOI: 10.3390/drones8070299