Artificial intelligence approaches for UAV navigation: Recent advances and future challenges

S Rezwan, W Choi - IEEE access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) applications have increased in popularity in recent years
because of their ability to incorporate a wide variety of sensors while retaining cheap …

Close-Range Remote Sensing of Forests: The state of the art, challenges, and opportunities for systems and data acquisitions

X Liang, A Kukko, I Balenović… - … and remote sensing …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remote sensing-based forest investigation and monitoring have become more affordable
and applicable in the past few decades. The current bottleneck limiting practical use of the …

Sloam: Semantic lidar odometry and mapping for forest inventory

SW Chen, GV Nardari, ES Lee, C Qu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter describes an end-to-end pipeline for tree diameter estimation based on semantic
segmentation and lidar odometry and mapping. Accurate mapping of this type of …

Autonomous UAV trail navigation with obstacle avoidance using deep neural networks

S Back, G Cho, J Oh, XT Tran, H Oh - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2020 - Springer
This paper proposes a vision-based bike trail following approach with obstacle avoidance
using CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) for the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). The …

Forest in situ observations through a fully automated under-canopy unmanned aerial vehicle

X Liang, H Yao, H Qi, X Wang - Geo-spatial Information Science, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Close-range sensing has yet to attain the status of being a dependable source for in situ
forest information as the conventional field inventory. Each solution has its advantages and …

Multi-task regression-based learning for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle flight control within unstructured outdoor environments

BG Maciel-Pearson, S Akçay… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increased growth in the global unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)(drone) industry has
expanded possibilities for fully autonomous UAV applications. A particular application which …

[HTML][HTML] Seamless integration of above-and under-canopy unmanned aerial vehicle laser scanning for forest investigation

Y Wang, A Kukko, E Hyyppä, T Hakala, J Pyörälä… - Forest …, 2021 - Springer
Background Current automated forest investigation is facing a dilemma over how to achieve
high tree-and plot-level completeness while maintaining a high cost and labor efficiency …

Online deep reinforcement learning for autonomous UAV navigation and exploration of outdoor environments

BG Maciel-Pearson, L Marchegiani, S Akcay… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
With the rapidly growing expansion in the use of UAVs, the ability to autonomously navigate
in varying environments and weather conditions remains a highly desirable but as-of-yet …

RPNet: Rotational pooling net for efficient Micro Aerial Vehicle trail navigation

IO Agyemang, X Zhang, D Acheampong… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Smart agile Micro Aerial Vehicles are becoming ubiquitous in industrial
applications; however, their computational efficacy poses a constraint limiting their …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive Investigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): An In-Depth Analysis of Avionics Systems

K Osmani, D Schulz - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
The evolving technologies regarding Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have led to their
extended applicability in diverse domains, including surveillance, commerce, military, and …