The last decade has seen a growing interest in the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
for various applications and services. UAVs, or drones as referred to, have shown to be …

The application of pesticides and fertilizers in agricultural areas is of crucial importance for
crop yields. The use of aircrafts is becoming increasingly common in carrying out this task …

Observing mobile or static targets in the ground using flying drones is a common task for
civilian and military applications. We introduce the minimum cost drone location problem …

Climate change, land degradation, and limited land and water resources have challenged
our ability to meet the food demand of a rapidly growing population. To tackle this challenge …

This paper addresses the mobile targets covering problem by using unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs). It is assumed that each UAV has a limited initial energy and the energy …

In the recent decade, drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are getting increasing
attention by both industry and academia. Due to the support of advanced technologies, they …

This brief presents a three-layer control architecture for coordinated control of multiple
unmanned aerial vehicle manipulators (UAVMs): the centralized top layer plans the end …

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is to process, analyse, store and calculate the network data
at the edge of the network. When the ground infrastructure is damaged in an emergency, the …

The access to Internet and digital services play a key role in all aspects of development, from
the economic to the socio-cultural dimensions, yet a substantial part of the world's …

Recent technological developments considerably lowered the barrier for unmanned aerial
systems (UAS) to be employed in a variety of usage scenarios, comprising live video …