A literature review of drone-based package delivery logistics systems and their implementation feasibility

T Benarbia, K Kyamakya - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent years, e-commerce businesses have seen an increase in the daily volume of
packages to be delivered, as well as an increase in the number of particularly demanding …

A decade of UAV docking stations: A brief overview of mobile and fixed landing platforms

CG Grlj, N Krznar, M Pranjić - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have advanced rapidly in the last two decades with the
advances in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. It is crucial, however, to …

[HTML][HTML] Flying free: A research overview of deep learning in drone navigation autonomy

T Lee, S Mckeever, J Courtney - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
Drones | Free Full-Text | Flying Free: A Research Overview of Deep Learning in Drone
Navigation Autonomy Next Article in Journal Unmanned Autogyro for Mars Exploration: A …

Improved altitude control algorithm for quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicles

N Xuan-Mung, SK Hong - Applied sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicles continue to play important roles in several
applications and the improvement of their control performance has been explored in a great …

Uav positioning mechanisms in landing stations: Classification and engineering design review

M Galimov, R Fedorenko, A Klimchik - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Landing platforms' automation is aimed at servicing vertical take-off and landing UAVs
between flights and maintaining their airworthiness. Over the last few years, different …

Backstepping and dynamic inversion control techniques for automatic landing of fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicles

M Lungu - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
The landing control of the unmanned aerial vehicles is a very difficult task having in mind
both the external disturbances and their strong nonlinear dynamics with channel …

Auto-landing of UAVs with variable centre of mass using the backstepping and dynamic inversion control

M Lungu - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The paper proposes the design methodology of a new auto-landing system for unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) with variable centre of mass subject to wind shears, wind gusts, and …

Autonomous uav system for cleaning insulators in power line inspection and maintenance

R Lopez Lopez, MJ Batista Sanchez, M Perez Jimenez… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The inspection and maintenance tasks of electrical installations are very demanding.
Nowadays, insulator cleaning is carried out manually by operators using scaffolds, ropes, or …

Indoor visual-based localization system for multi-rotor uavs

M Bertoni, S Michieletto, R Oboe, G Michieletto - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Industry 4.0, smart homes, and the Internet of Things are boosting the employment of
autonomous aerial vehicles in indoor environments, where localization is still challenging …

Deep reinforcement learning with corrective feedback for autonomous uav landing on a mobile platform

L Wu, C Wang, P Zhang, C Wei - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) landing remains a challenge in uncertain
environments, eg, landing on a mobile ground platform such as an Unmanned Ground …