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MacroSwarm: A Field-based Compositional Framework for Swarm Programming

Gianluca Aguzzi, Roberto Casadei, Mirko Viroli • Logical Methods in Computer Science (2025)

Swarm behaviour engineering is an area of research that seeks to investigate methods and techniques for coordinating computation and action within groups of simple agents to achieve complex global goals like pattern formation, collective mo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.46298/lmcs-21(3:13)2025

Cloud geographies

Louise Amoore • Progress in Human Geography (2016)

The architecture of cloud computing is becoming ever more closely intertwined with geopolitics – from the sharing of intelligence data, to border controls, immigration decisions, and drone strikes. Developing an analogy with the cloud chamb...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516662147

Enhanced Intrusion Detection in Drone Networks: A Cross-Layer Convolutional Attention Approach for Drone-to-Drone and Drone-to-Base Station Communications

Mohammad Aldossary, Ibrahim Alzamil, Jaber Almutairi • Drones (2025)

Due to Internet of Drones (IoD) technology, drone networks have proliferated, transforming surveillance, logistics, and disaster management. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, malware infections, and communication abnormalities i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/drones9010046

Management of Ureters Involved in Inguinal Hernias

Sarah Perz, Timothy Suttle, Puneet Sindhwani • Translation (2018)

Background: The presence of a ureter in a hernia sac presents a unique surgical challenge and can increase the likelihood of ureteral injury at the time of surgery as they are often not identified pre-operatively. Here we present our instit...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.46570/utjms.vol5-2018-250

Enhancing Communication Security in Drones Using QRNG in Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

J. de Curtò, I. de Zarzà, Juan-Carlos Cano, Carlos T. Calafate • Future Internet (2024)

This paper presents a novel approach to enhancing the security and reliability of drone communications through the integration of Quantum Random Number Generators (QRNG) in Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) systems. We propose a mult...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/fi16110412

Adversarial Attack on Object Detection via Object Feature-Wise Attention and Perturbation Extraction

Wei Xue, Xiaoyan Xia, Pengcheng Wan, Ping Zhong et al. • Tsinghua Science and Technology (2025)

Deep neural networks are commonly used in computer vision tasks, but they are vulnerable to adversarial samples, resulting in poor recognition accuracy. Although traditional algorithms that craft adversarial samples have been effective in a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.26599/TST.2024.9010029

Vision-Based Autonomous Landing of a Quadrotor on the Perturbed Deck of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/drones2020015

Monitoring the spread of a pathogenic insect on vineyards using UAS

V. Longhi, A. Martino, A. M. Lingua, P. F. Maschio et al. • The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (2024)

Globalisation has contributed to rapid economic growth but has also exposed vulnerabilities such as the spread of pests in agriculture. An example is the Popillia Japonica Newman beetle, introduced to Italy in 2014, which has caused signifi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-1-2024-443-2024

Enabling scalable inspection of offshore mooring systems using cost-effective autonomous underwater drones

Dong Trong Nguyen, Christian Lindahl Elseth, Jakob Rude Øvstaas, Nikolai Arntzen et al. • Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2025)

As aquaculture expands to meet global food demand, it remains dependent on manual, costly, infrequent, and high-risk operations due to reliance on high-end Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Scalable and autonomous systems are needed to ena...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2025.1655242

A Survey of Deep Learning Techniques and Computer Vision in Robotic and Drone with Applications

Khazaal Abbas Maaroof Maysoon, Bouhlel Med Salim • BIO Web of Conferences (2024)

The methods of deep learning have lately demonstrated outstanding outcomes of robotic objects such as imagination, localization and striping. Its exceptional abilities in order to learn idealizations from complicated data gathered in the re...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1051/bioconf/20249700008

Low-Power Computer Vision

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...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003162810

Impact of Water Depth on Subway Emergency Evacuation in Flood Scenarios

ZHU Wenhao, ZHU Haiyan, LIU Zhigang, SHEN Yuxin et al. • Chengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu (2025)

[Objective] Evacuation bottlenecks for subway stations in flood scenarios are investigated to enhance subway station personnel evacuation efficiency under water inundation and backflow conditions, and provide insights for developing subway ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.16037/j.1007-869x.20231053

A Comparative Study of Physically Accurate Synthetic Shadow Datasets in Agricultural Settings with Human Activity

Mengchen Huang, Ruben Fernandez-Beltran, Ginés García-Mateos • Sensors (2024)

Shadow, a natural phenomenon resulting from the absence of light, plays a pivotal role in agriculture, particularly in processes such as photosynthesis in plants. Despite the availability of generic shadow datasets, many suffer from annotat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/s24092737

Secured Perimeter with Electromagnetic Detection and Tracking with Drone Embedded and Static Cameras

Pedro Teixidó, Juan Antonio Gómez-Galán, Rafael Caballero, Francisco J. Pérez-Grau et al. • Sensors (2021)

Perimeter detection systems detect intruders penetrating protected areas, but modern solutions require the combination of smart detectors, information networks and controlling software to reduce false alarms and extend detection range. The ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/s21217379