Cooperative motion planning and control for aerial-ground autonomous systems: Methods and applications

R Chai, Y Guo, Z Zuo, K Chen, HS Shin… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2024 - Elsevier
This review article offers an in-depth analysis of cooperative motion planning and control in
aerial-ground autonomous systems, emphasizing their methods and applications. It explores …

The use of swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles in mitigating area coverage challenges of forest-fire-extinguishing activities: A systematic literature review

ILH Alsammak, MA Mahmoud, H Aris, M AlKilabi… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), colloquially known as drones, has grown
rapidly over the past two decades and continues to expand at a rapid pace. This has …

Robot-assisted nuclear disaster response: Report and insights from a field exercise

M Chiou, GT Epsimos, G Nikolaou… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports on insights by robotics researchers that participated in a 5-day robot-
assisted nuclear disaster response field exercise conducted by Kerntechnische Hilfdienst …

Tethered UAV with combined multi-rotor and water jet propulsion for forest fire fighting

C Viegas, B Chehreh, J Andrade… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2022 - Springer
Numerous research works, numerical simulations and real experiments have been
dedicated to the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) before, during and after wildfire …

SphereMap: Dynamic multi-layer graph structure for rapid safety-aware UAV planning

T Musil, M Petrlík, M Saska - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A flexible topological representation consisting of a two-layer graph structure built on-board
an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) by continuously filling the free space of an occupancy …

Applications of UAVs in search and rescue

R Ashour, S Aldhaheri, Y Abu-Kheil - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles …, 2023 - Springer
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have grown in popularity over the last decade, with
applications ranging from agriculture to commercial and widespread use in search and …

Nature-inspired drone swarming for wildfires suppression considering distributed fire spots and energy consumption

ILH Alsammak, MA Mahmoud, SS Gunasekaran… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wildfires are among the biggest problems faced worldwide. They are increasing in severity
and frequency, causing economic losses, human death, and significant environmental …

Uav autonomous indoor exploration and mapping for sar missions: Reflections from the icuas 2022 competition

A Farooq, A Anastasiou, N Souli… - 2022 19th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The technological advancement in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones and their
deployment in real-life Search and Rescue (SAR) missions is imminent. We, therefore …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and artificial intelligence (AI) in fire related disaster recovery: analytical survey study

H Ahmed, M Bakr, MA Talib, S Abbas… - … on Business Analytics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Natural disasters are unpredictable and strike when they are least expected to. A disaster is
defined as “an occurrence disrupting the normal conditions of existence and causing a level …

Rotorcraft aerial vehicle's contact-based landing and vision-based localization research

X Meng, H Xi, J Wei, Y He, J Han, A Song - Robotica, 2023 - cambridge.org
A novel concept—the contact-based landing on a mobile platform—is proposed in this
paper. An adaptive backstepping controller is designed to deal with the unknown …