Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are increasingly used for diverse applications, driving research focused on improving their autonomy, safety, and efficiency. Current research emphasizes robust navigation and control in complex environments, employing techniques like nonlinear model predictive control and advanced search algorithms for path planning, often coupled with deep learning models (e.g., YOLO, U-Net) for perception and object detection. These advancements are crucial for expanding UAV capabilities in sectors such as agriculture, search and rescue, and infrastructure monitoring, while also addressing critical concerns like security and reliable operation in challenging conditions (e.g., GPS-denied environments, harsh weather).
Papers
Obscured Wildfire Flame Detection By Temporal Analysis of Smoke Patterns Captured by Unmanned Aerial Systems
Uma Meleti, Abolfazl Razi
Unscented Optimal Control for 3D Coverage Planning with an Autonomous UAV Agent
Savvas Papaioannou, Panayiotis Kolios, Theocharis Theocharides, Christos G. Panayiotou, Marios M. Polycarpou
Time-Optimal Path Planning in a Constant Wind for Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles using Dubins Set Classification
Brady Moon, Sagar Sachdev, Junbin Yuan, Sebastian Scherer
CoNi-MPC: Cooperative Non-inertial Frame Based Model Predictive Control
Baozhe Zhang, Xinwei Chen, Zhehan Li, Giovanni Beltrame, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, Yanjun Cao
AircraftVerse: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset of Aerial Vehicle Designs
Adam D. Cobb, Anirban Roy, Daniel Elenius, F. Michael Heim, Brian Swenson, Sydney Whittington, James D. Walker, Theodore Bapty, Joseph Hite, Karthik Ramani, Christopher McComb, Susmit Jha
A review of UAV Visual Detection and Tracking Methods
Raed Abu Zitar, Mohammad Al-Betar, Mohamad Ryalat, Sofian Kassaymeh