Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as mobile sensing platforms (MSPs) for disaster response, civil security and public safety

H Hildmann, E Kovacs - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
The use of UAVs in areas ranging from agriculture over urban services to entertainment or
simply as a hobby has rapidly grown over the last years. Regarding serious/commercial …

Survey of computer vision algorithms and applications for unmanned aerial vehicles

A Al-Kaff, D Martin, F Garcia, A de la Escalera… - Expert Systems with …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a complete review of computer vision algorithms and vision-based
intelligent applications, that are developed in the field of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles …

Real-time control based on NARX neural network of hexarotor UAV with load transporting system for path tracking

A Altan, Ö Aslan, R Hacıoğlu - 2018 6th international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The control of equipment such as camera gimbal, Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) and
Load Transporting System (LTS) on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with its own flight …

Three-dimensional path planning for uninhabited combat aerial vehicle based on predator-prey pigeon-inspired optimization in dynamic environment

B Zhang, H Duan - IEEE/ACM transactions on computational …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three-dimension path planning of uninhabited combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) is a
complicated optimal problem, which mainly focused on optimizing the flight route …

An appearance-based tracking algorithm for aerial search and rescue purposes

A Al-Kaff, MJ Gómez-Silva, FM Moreno… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
The automation of the Wilderness Search and Rescue (WiSAR) task aims for high levels of
understanding of various scenery. In addition, working in unfriendly and complex …

Model reference adaptive control of load transporting system on unmanned aerial vehicle

A Altan, Ö Aslan, R Hacıoğlu - 2018 6th International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The effective control of gimbal, Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) and Load Transporting
System (LTS) in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), which are widely used in mapping …

Occlusion-aware uav path planning for reconnaissance and surveillance in complex environments

J Zhang - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper concerns the reconnaissance and surveillance problem for multi-rotor aerial
drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) flying over geometrically complex …

Intelligent vehicle for search, rescue and transportation purposes

A Al-Kaff, FM Moreno, A de la Escalera… - … on Safety, Security …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent development in micro-electronics technologies as well as the computer vision
techniques increased demand to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in several …

AI based algorithms of path planning, navigation and control for mobile ground robots and UAVs

J Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.00910, 2021 - arxiv.org
As the demands of autonomous mobile robots are increasing in recent years, the
requirement of the path planning/navigation algorithm should not be content with the ability …

The Potential of UAV Data as Refinement of Outdated Inputs for Visibility Analyses

T Mikita, L Janošíková, J Caha, E Avoiani - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Visibility analyses in geographical information systems (GIS) are used to quantify the visible
and non-visible parts of the landscape. This study aims to evaluate the changes in viewshed …