A review of GNSS-independent UAV navigation techniques

N Gyagenda, JV Hatilima, H Roth, V Zhmud - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Application of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in environments devoid of GNSS
(Global Navigation Satellite System) service has motivated research into GNSS …

Survey on computer vision for UAVs: Current developments and trends

C Kanellakis, G Nikolakopoulos - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2017 - Springer
During last decade the scientific research on Unmanned Aerial Vehicless (UAVs) increased
spectacularly and led to the design of multiple types of aerial platforms. The major challenge …

Real-time multiple damage mapping using autonomous UAV and deep faster region-based neural networks for GPS-denied structures

R Ali, D Kang, G Suh, YJ Cha - Automation in Construction, 2021 - Elsevier
An autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system integrated with a modified faster
region-based convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN) is proposed to identify various …

Model predictive quadrotor control: attitude, altitude and position experimental studies

K Alexis, G Nikolakopoulos, A Tzes - IET Control Theory & Applications, 2012 - IET
This study addresses the control problem of an unmanned quadrotor in an indoor
environment where there is lack of absolute localisation data. Based on an attached inertia …

Autonomous landing of a VTOL UAV on a moving platform using image-based visual servoing

D Lee, T Ryan, HJ Kim - 2012 IEEE international conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we describe a vision-based algorithm to control a vertical-takeoff-and-landing
unmanned aerial vehicle while tracking and landing on a moving platform. Specifically, we …

System for deployment of groups of unmanned micro aerial vehicles in GPS-denied environments using onboard visual relative localization

M Saska, T Baca, J Thomas, J Chudoba, L Preucil… - Autonomous …, 2017 - Springer
A complex system for control of swarms of micro aerial vehicles (MAV), in literature also
called as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or unmanned aerial systems (UAS), stabilized via …

Vision based autonomous landing of multirotor UAV on moving platform

O Araar, N Aouf, I Vitanov - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2017 - Springer
This paper investigates solutions for the fundamental yet challenging problem of
autonomous landing of multirotor Unammaned Aerial Vehicles UAVs. In addition to landing …

Vision-based autonomous landing for the UAV: A review

L Xin, Z Tang, W Gai, H Liu - Aerospace, 2022 - mdpi.com
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 …

A review of recent advances in coordination between unmanned aerial and ground vehicles

Y Ding, B Xin, J Chen - Unmanned Systems, 2021 - World Scientific
Coordination between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles
(UGVs) has received increasing attention in recent years. The list of successful applications …

Embedded real-time object detection for a UAV warning system

N Tijtgat, W Van Ranst, T Goedeme… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper, we demonstrate and evaluate a method to perform real-time object detection
on-board a UAV using the state of the art YOLOv2 object detection algorithm running on an …