The study of soil cracking is becoming increasingly important because of rising global
temperatures and frequent natural disasters. And it poses a huge threat to the infrastructure …

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for planetary exploration missions require
increased onboard mission-planning and decision-making capabilities to access full …

Studies of past life forms on other planets are possible through the identification and
localisation of desiccation cracks in ancient water bodies such as lakes, rivers and seas …

The search for life beyond Earth can benefit from orbiters and spacecraft with compact
instruments able to identify potential biological signatures. One of the main challenges is the …

This research was a step towards enabling Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to use semantic
information for navigation. A navigation framework was established, a method to address …

UAV are increasingly used for multiple missions from inspection to surveillance and
agricultural applications. Although several successful reports of UAV applications have been …

This study established a framework that increases cognitive levels in small UAVs (or
drones), enabling autonomous navigation in partially observable environments. The UAV …