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Mohamed Elajrami, Zouaoui Satla, Kouider Bendine • Communications
(2021)
Due to their strong abilities and easy usage, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) commonly named drones have found a place and merged in the different industrial sectors. These varieties of applications encourage researchers to search for new c...
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DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2021.3.C75-C82
Yanbing Bai, Rui-Yang Ju, Lemeng Zhao, Junjie Hu et al. • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
(2026)
Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly important in disaster emergency response by facilitating aerial video analysis. Due to the limited computational resources available on UAVs, large models cannot be run efficiently fo...
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DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2026.3685660
Yevhenii Kovryzhenko, Ehsan Taheri • Drones
(2025)
Motion planning is critical for ensuring precise and efficient operations of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). While polynomial parameterization has been the prevailing approach, its limitations in handling complex trajectory requirements ha...
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DOI: 10.3390/drones9010077
Tong He, Yihui Zeng, Zhuangli Hu • IEEE Access
(2019)
With the rapid development of the economy, the scale of transmission networks has been expanding, bring higher demands and challenges on transmission line operation and maintenance. In this paper, the multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (U...
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DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2935551
Jutarut Chaoraingern, Arjin Numsomran • Sensors
(2025)
The accurate real-time estimation of the remaining useful life (RUL) of lithium-polymer (LiPo) batteries is a critical enabler for ensuring the safety, reliability, and operational efficiency of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Nevertheless...
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DOI: 10.3390/s25123810
Wojciech Giernacki • Applied Sciences
(2019)
With an increasing number of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), solutions supporting the improvement in their precision of operation and safety of autonomous flights are gaining importance. They are particularly crucial in transpor...
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DOI: 10.3390/app9040648
Makhabbat Bakyt, Luigi La Spada, Nida Zeeshan, Khuralay Moldamurat et al. • Applied Sciences
(2025)
Ensuring secure data transmission in agrotechnical monitoring systems using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is critical due to increasing cyber threats, particularly with the advent of quantum computing. This study proposes the integration ...
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DOI: 10.3390/app15052429
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
Ahmed Mohamed, Mohamed M. Ahmed • Applied Sciences
(2025)
Over the past decade, researchers have advanced traffic monitoring using surveillance cameras, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), loop detectors, LiDAR, microwave sensors, and sensor fusion. These technologies effectively detect and track veh...
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DOI: 10.3390/app151910413
Liang Lu, Carlos Redondo, Pascual Campoy • Sensors
(2020)
Aerial robots are widely used in search and rescue applications because of their small size and high maneuvering. However, designing an autonomous exploration algorithm is still a challenging and open task, because of the limited payload an...
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DOI: 10.3390/s20226507
Hyungchul Yoon, Vedhus Hoskere, Jong-Woong Park, Billie F. Spencer • Sensors
(2017)
Computer vision techniques have been employed to characterize dynamic properties of structures, as well as to capture structural motion for system identification purposes. All of these methods leverage image-processing techniques using a st...
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DOI: 10.3390/s17092075
Arailym Serikbay, Venera Nurmanova, Yerbol Akhmetov, Amin Zollanvari et al. • International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems
(2025)
Regular monitoring of outdoor insulators is crucial to ensure the reliable functioning of the power grid. With recent progress in computer vision technologies, traditional manual and expensive visual inspections can now be replaced by autom...
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DOI: 10.1155/etep/8669289
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
Billie F. Spencer, Vedhus Hoskere, Yasutaka Narazaki • Engineering
(2019)
Computer vision techniques, in conjunction with acquisition through remote cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), offer promising non-contact solutions to civil infrastructure condition assessment. The ultimate goal of such a system i...
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George K. Thiruvathukal, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Jaeyoun Kim, Yiran Chen et al. • Chapman & Hall/CRC eBooks
(2022)
Energy efficiency is critical for running computer vision on battery-powered systems, such as mobile phones or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones). This book collects the methods that have won the annual IEEE Low-Power Computer Visio...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003162810
Hormazd Ranjbar, Perry Forsythe, Alireza Ahmadian Fard Fini, Mojtaba Maghrebi et al. • Results in Engineering
(2023)
According to the recent world bank report, around 80% of a life-cycle cost of a road is devoted to maintenance which includes monitoring and repair processes. To more effectively keep road serviceability, knowing the current status of road ...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rineng.2023.101130
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
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
N. Kannaiya Raja, E. Laxmi Lydia, Thumpala Archana Acharya, K. Radhika et al. • IEEE Access
(2023)
In recent years, drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) got significant attention among researchers because of their extensive application in commercial applications, border surveillance, etc. As the conventional terrestrial communicatio...
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DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3324068
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