Autonomous navigation of agricultural robots and vehicles in agricultural environments is a
prerequisite for the accomplishment of various tasks. However, precision navigation of …

In recent years, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems have shown
significant performance, accuracy, and efficiency gain. In this regard, Visual Simultaneous …

The age of automation is upon us. Few decades earlier, nearly all the flying vehicles were
human-controlled. Nowadays, almost every air vehicle is partially automated or getting …

Within the last couple of decades, there has been increasing research into the use of mobile
robots for gas sensing applications. This has led to many different branches of research …

With the rapid development of the UAV, it is widely used in rescue and disaster relief, where
autonomous landing is the key technology. Vision-based autonomous landing has the …

Three-dimensional mapping is an increasingly important feature for recent photogrammetry
and remote sensing (RS) systems. Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have …

Unmanned aerial vehicles, especially quadcopters, play key roles in many real-world
applications and the related quadcopter autonomous control algorithms have attracted a …

Autonomous navigation and landing of Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are critical
functions towards full intelligence in unknown environments. However, current methods …

In this work, we consider a cooperative system in which UAVs perform long-distance
missions with assistance of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for battery charging. We …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being increasingly used in different applications in
both military and civilian domains. These applications include, for example, surveillance …