Applications of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in road safety, traffic and highway infrastructure management: Recent advances and challenges

F Outay, HA Mengash, M Adnan - … research part A: policy and practice, 2020 - Elsevier
For next-generation smart cities, small UAVs (also known as drones) are vital to incorporate
in airspace for advancing the transportation systems. This paper presents a review of recent …

Networked unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance and monitoring: A survey

X Li, AV Savkin - Future Internet, 2021 - mdpi.com
As a typical cyber-physical system, networked unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have
received much attention in recent years. Emerging communication technologies and high …

Decentralized autonomous navigation of a UAV network for road traffic monitoring

H Huang, AV Savkin, C Huang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increase of population and the fast growth of private vehicle ownership in urban
areas, many roads have become more congested than ever before. The road traffic …

Path planning of multiple UAVs with online changing tasks by an ORPFOA algorithm

K Li, F Ge, Y Han, W Xu - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2020 - Elsevier
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a new type oilfield inspection tool which is
characterized by high flexibility, low cost and high efficiency. In the UAV based oilfield …

A robust deep learning approach for automatic iranian vehicle license plate detection and recognition for surveillance systems

A Tourani, A Shahbahrami, S Soroori, S Khazaee… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The process of detecting vehicles' license plates, along with recognizing the characters
inside them, has always been a challenging issue due to various conditions. These …

A dual-population evolutionary algorithm based on adaptive constraint strength for constrained multi-objective optimization

K Yang, J Zheng, J Zou, F Yu, S Yang - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2023 - Elsevier
It is challenging to balance convergence and diversity while fully satisfying feasibility when
dealing with constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs). Overemphasizing …

Navigation of a UAV network for optimal surveillance of a group of ground targets moving along a road

AV Savkin, H Huang - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid increase of vehicles in recent years, traffic surveillance becomes a crucial
issue of traffic management. Since the traditional static sensor-based surveillance system …

Traffic congestion-aware graph-based vehicle rerouting framework from aerial imagery

E Bayraktar, BN Korkmaz, AU Erarslan… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
In digital era, being stranded from very basic telecommunication protocols and internet
makes vehicle rerouting-like crucial tools more difficult or even impossible, especially in …

High-resolution traffic sensing with probe autonomous vehicles: A data-driven approach

W Ma, S Qian - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent decades have witnessed the breakthrough of autonomous vehicles (AVs), and the
sensing capabilities of AVs have been dramatically improved. Various sensors installed on …

Modeling and path planning for persistent surveillance by unmanned ground vehicle

T Wang, P Huang, G Dong - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a novel modeling and path planning framework to tackle a new
problem, named road-network persistent surveillance problem (RPSP), in which the …