A review on the truck and drone cooperative delivery problem

R Zhang, L Dou, B Xin, C Chen, F Deng… - Unmanned Systems, 2024 - World Scientific
As an emerging delivery style in logistics, the cooperation between trucks and drones can
significantly improve the efficiency of parcel delivery, especially in some typical scenes, such …

A detection approach for late-autumn shoots of litchi based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing

J Liang, X Chen, C Liang, T Long, X Tang, Z Shi… - … and Electronics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Litchi is one of the most common economic fruits in southern China, however, the growth of
late-autumn shoots of litchi hinders flower bud differentiation and reduces yield of fruit. The …

Unmanned aerial vehicle remote sensing image registration based on an improved oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF-random sample consensus algorithm

F Zhu, H Li, J Li, B Zhu, S Lei - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) remote sensing image registration is the key step
of remote sensing image stitching, image fusion and multi-frames image super-resolution. Its …

UAV inspection technology and application of transmission line

Q Du, W Dong, W Su, Q Wang - 2022 IEEE 5th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
UAVs are widely used in transmission line inspections because of their simple operation,
safety and reliability, and over-the-horizon flight characteristics, while video surveillance …

Intelligent integrated system for fruit detection using multi-UAV imaging and deep learning

O Melnychenko, L Scislo, O Savenko, A Sachenko… - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
In the context of Industry 4.0, one of the most significant challenges is enhancing efficiency
in sectors like agriculture by using intelligent sensors and advanced computing. Specifically …

3D smooth trajectory planning for UAVs under navigation relayed by multiple stations using Bezier curves

M Qi, L Dou, B Xin - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Navigation relayed by multiple stations (NRMS) is a promising technique that can
significantly extend the operational range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and hence …

A fully distributed hybrid control framework for non-differentiable multi-agent optimization

X Jiang, X Zeng, J Sun, J Chen… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper develops a fully distributed hybrid control framework for distributed constrained
optimization problems. The individual cost functions are non-differentiable and convex …

A novel multispectral maritime target classification based on ThermalGAN (RGB-to-thermal image translation)

B Mohamed El Mahdi, N Abdelkrim… - … of Experimental & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for ship classification in multi-spectral
images (RGB, IR, etc.) is proposed in this paper. Recent developments in deep learning …

Fast RRT* 3D-sliced planner for autonomous exploration using MAVs

Á Martínez Novo, L Lu, P Campoy - Unmanned Systems, 2022 - World Scientific
This paper addresses the challenge to build an autonomous exploration system using Micro-
Aerial Vehicles (MAVs). MAVs are capable of flying autonomously, generating collision-free …

Sim-in-real: Digital twin based uav inspection process

J Zhang, R Wang, G Yang, K Liu, C Gao… - 2022 International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work applies the information integration of the geographic information system (GIS) to
the physical world and expands the digital virtual environment in reality with accuracy …