Toward integrated large-scale environmental monitoring using WSN/UAV/Crowdsensing: A review of applications, signal processing, and future perspectives

A Fascista - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fighting Earth's degradation and safeguarding the environment are subjects of topical
interest and sources of hot debate in today's society. According to the United Nations, there …

Unmanned aerial vehicle communications for civil applications: A review

M Ghamari, P Rangel, M Mehrubeoglu… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of drones, formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has significantly
increased across a variety of applications over the past few years. This is due to the rapid …

Near-optimal area-coverage path planning of energy-constrained aerial robots with application in autonomous environmental monitoring

KR Jensen-Nau, T Hermans… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article describes a Voronoi-based path generation (VPG) algorithm for an energy-
constrained mobile robot, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The algorithm solves …

A UAV-assisted data collection for wireless sensor networks: Autonomous navigation and scheduling

O Bouhamed, H Ghazzai, H Besbes, Y Massoud - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are playing a vital and sustainable role in
many verticals touching different aspects of our lives including civil, public, and military …

Survey on path and view planning for UAVs

X Zhou, Z Yi, Y Liu, K Huang, H Huang - Virtual Reality & Intelligent …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background In recent decades, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have developed rapidly
and been widely applied in many domains, including photography, reconstruction …

Automation and Computerization of (Bio) sensing Systems

CM Raju, DP Elpa, PL Urban - ACS sensors, 2024 - ACS Publications
Sensing systems necessitate automation to reduce human effort, increase reproducibility,
and enable remote sensing. In this perspective, we highlight different types of sensing …

Coordinated Bayesian-based bioinspired plume source term estimation and source seeking for mobile robots

JR Bourne, ER Pardyjak… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new nonparametric Bayesian-based motion planning algorithm for autonomous plume
source term estimation (STE) and source seeking (SS) is presented in this paper. The …

Decentralized Multi-agent information-theoretic control for target estimation and localization: finding gas leaks

JR Bourne, MN Goodell, X He… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents a new decentralized multi-agent information-theoretic (DeMAIT) control
algorithm for mobile sensors (agents). The algorithm leverages Bayesian estimation and …

Aerial mapping of odorous gases in a wastewater treatment plant using a small drone

J Burgués, MD Esclapez, S Doñate, L Pastor, S Marco - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are sources of greenhouse gases, hazardous air
pollutants and offensive odors. These emissions can have negative repercussions in and …

Particle swarm optimization for source localization in realistic complex urban environments

N Gunawardena, KK Leang, E Pardyjak - Atmospheric Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, we present a method to localize a source in complex urban environments using
particle swarm optimization (PSO). Instead of using PSO to minimize the difference between …