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 …

Visible light communications for industrial applications—Challenges and potentials

Y Almadani, D Plets, S Bastiaens, W Joseph, M Ijaz… - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a short-range optical wireless communication
technology that has been gaining attention due to its potential to offload heavy data traffic …

Blockchain-envisioned UAV communication using 6G networks: Open issues, use cases, and future directions

S Aggarwal, N Kumar, S Tanwar - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) can provide efficient and effective solutions for the
development of smart cities. They have been widely used in civilian and military …

A survey on recent optimal techniques for securing unmanned aerial vehicles applications

F Syed, SK Gupta, S Hamood Alsamhi… - Transactions on …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or Drones technology has a huge potential for supporting
different efficient solutions for the smart applications in our world. The applications include …

A multi-strategy improved differential evolution algorithm for UAV 3D trajectory planning in complex mountainous environments

M Zhang, Y Han, S Chen, M Liu, Z He, N Pan - Engineering Applications of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In response to the complexity of power repair in mountainous areas and the limitations of
traditional vehicles due to terrain constraints, this study focuses on the three-dimensional …

Search and rescue in a maze-like environment with ant and dijkstra algorithms

Z Husain, A Al Zaabi, H Hildmann, F Saffre, D Ruta… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the growing reliability of modern ad hoc networks, it is encouraging to analyze the
potential involvement of autonomous ad hoc agents in critical situations where human …

Persistent mobile aerial surveillance platform using intelligent battery health management and drone swapping

A Williams, O Yakimenko - 2018 4th International Conference …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned systems continue to be at the forefront of development for many industries,
including homeland security and military. Unmanned systems operate with increasingly …

A robust quadruplet and faster region-based CNN for UAV video-based multiple object tracking in crowded environment

HU Dike, Y Zhou - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Multiple object tracking (MOT) from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) videos has faced
several challenges such as motion capture and appearance, clustering, object variation …

Multi-sensor three-dimensional Monte Carlo localization for long-term aerial robot navigation

FJ Perez-Grau, F Caballero… - … Journal of Advanced …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents an enhanced version of the Monte Carlo localization algorithm,
commonly used for robot navigation in indoor environments, which is suitable for aerial …

Energy-aware stochastic UAV-assisted surveillance

S Hosseinalipour, A Rahmati… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the ease of deployment, capabilities of evading the jammers and obscuring their
existence, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are one of the most suitable candidates to …