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The acquisition and analysis of high-quality sensor data constitute an essential requirement in shaping the development of fully autonomous driving systems. This process is indispensable for enhancing road safety and ensuring the…

Thanks to the advantages of flexible deployment and high mobility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely applied in the areas of disaster management, agricultural plant protection, environment monitoring and so on. With the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Zhiqing Wei , Mingyue Zhu , Ning Zhang , Lin Wang , Yingying Zou , Zeyang Meng , Huici Wu , Zhiyong Feng

Drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become a reliable and efficient tool for road traffic monitoring. Compared to loop detectors and bluetooth receivers (with high capital and operational expenditure), drones are a low-cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Chrystalleni Christodoulou , Panayiotis Kolios

This paper addresses the problem of crack detection which is essential for health monitoring of built infrastructure. Our approach includes two stages, data collection using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and crack detection using…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Manh Duong Phung , Van Truong Hoang , Tran Hiep Dinh , Quang Ha

This work details the problem of aerial target capture using multiple UAVs. This problem is motivated from the challenge 1 of Mohammed Bin Zayed International Robotic Challenge 2020. The UAVs utilise visual feedback to autonomously detect…

Multi-way and device-to-device (D2D) communications are currently considered for the design of future communication systems. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be effectively deployed to extend the communication range of D2D networks. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Jaber Kakar , Anas Chaaban , Vuk Marojevic , Aydin Sezgin

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly utilized in various civilian and military applications such as remote sensing, border patrolling, disaster monitoring, and communication coverage extension. However, there are still…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Mahsa Keshavarz , Alireza Shamsoshoara , Fatemeh Afghah , Jonathan Ashdown

V2X cooperation, through the integration of sensor data from both vehicles and infrastructure, is considered a pivotal approach to advancing autonomous driving technology. Current research primarily focuses on enhancing perception accuracy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhiwei Li , Bozhen Zhang , Lei Yang , Tianyu Shen , Nuo Xu , Ruosen Hao , Weiting Li , Tao Yan , Huaping Liu

How do you learn to navigate an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and avoid obstacles? One approach is to use a small dataset collected by human experts: however, high capacity learning algorithms tend to overfit when trained with little data.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Dhiraj Gandhi , Lerrel Pinto , Abhinav Gupta

Cooperative control of multi-UAV systems has attracted substantial research attention due to its significance in various application sectors such as emergency response, search and rescue missions, and critical infrastructure inspection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Angelos Zacharia , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Christos Panayiotou

The motion planning and tracking control techniques of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) are fundamentally significant for efficient and robust UUV navigation, which is crucial for underwater rescue, facility maintenance, marine resource…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Danjie Zhu , Tao Yan , Simon X. Yang

The rapid growth of traffic-related fatalities and injuries around the world including developed countries has drawn researchers' attention for conducting research on automated highway systems to improve road safety over the past few years.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Md Salman Ahmed , Mohammad A Hoque , Jackeline Rios-Torres , Asad Khattak

This paper proposes a real-time movement control algorithm for massive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that provide emergency cellular connections in an urban disaster site. While avoiding the inter-UAV collision under temporal wind…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Hyesung Kim , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly popular in recent years due to their versatility and affordability. This article provides an overview of the history and development of UAVs, as well as their current and potential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-27 S. M. Riazul Islam

Suitably equipped with cameras and sensors, uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be instrumental for wildfire prediction, tracking, and monitoring, provided that uninterrupted connectivity can be guaranteed even if some of the ground access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Carles Diaz-Vilor , Angel Lozano , Hamid Jafarkhani

The development of the low-altitude economy has led to a growing prominence of uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) safety management issues. Therefore, accurate identification, real-time localization, and effective countermeasures have become…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Yi Tao , Zhen Gao , Fangquan Ye , Jingbo Xu , Tao Song , Weidong Li , Yu Su , Lu Peng , Xiaomei Wu , Tong Qin , Zhongxiang Li , Dezhi Zheng

In the maritime sector, safe vessel navigation is of great importance, particularly in congested harbors and waterways. The focus of this work is to estimate the distance between an object of interest and potential obstacles using a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Jonas le Fevre Sejersen , Rui Pimentel de Figueiredo , Erdal Kayacan

Next generation Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) must reliably avoid moving obstacles. Existing dynamic collision avoidance methods are effective where obstacle trajectories are linear or known, but such restrictions are not accurate to many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Vincent Kurtz , Hai Lin

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide flexible traffic surveillance where fixed roadside cameras are unavailable, costly, or impractical. However, raw UAV video is difficult to use for traffic analytics because vehicle motion is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Alexey Popov , Natalia Trukhina , Vadim Vashkelis

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer wide-ranging applications but also pose significant safety and privacy violation risks in areas like airport and infrastructure inspection, spurring the rapid development of Anti-UAV technologies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chunhui Zhang , Li Liu , Zhipeng Zhang , Yong Wang , Hao Wen , Xi Zhou , Shiming Ge , Yanfeng Wang