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This paper presents a new high resolution aerial images dataset in which moving objects are labelled manually. It aims to contribute to the evaluation of the moving object detection methods for moving cameras. The problem of recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Ibrahim Delibasoglu

This work aims at showing that it is feasible and safe to use a swarm of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) indoors alongside humans. UAVs are increasingly being integrated under the Industry 4.0 framework. UAV swarms are primarily deployed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Shrutarv Awasthi , Nils Gramse , Christopher Reining , Moritz Roidl

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) especially drones, equipped with vision techniques have become very popular in recent years, with their extensive use in wide range of applications. Many of these applications require use of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Subrahmanyam Vaddi , Chandan Kumar , Ali Jannesari

Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation in orchards presents significant challenges due to obstacles and GPS-deprived environments. In this work, we introduce a learning-based approach to achieve vision-based navigation of UAVs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Peng Wei , Prabhash Ragbir , Stavros G. Vougioukas , Zhaodan Kong

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is becoming increasingly important in modern civilian and military applications. However, its novel use cases is bottlenecked by conventional satellite and terrestrial localization technologies, and calling for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten

This paper addresses the problem of multi-object tracking in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) footage. It plays a critical role in various UAV applications, including traffic monitoring systems and real-time suspect tracking by the police.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 InPyo Song , Jangwon Lee

An onboard target detection, tracking and avoidance system has been developed in this paper, for low-cost UAV flight controllers using AI-Based approaches. The aim of the proposed system is that an ally UAV can either avoid or track an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Vinorth Varatharasan , Alice Shuang Shuang Rao , Eric Toutounji , Ju-Hyeon Hong , Hyo-Sang Shin

The significant components of any successful autonomous flight system are task completion and collision avoidance. Most deep learning algorithms successfully execute these aspects under the environment and conditions they are trained.…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has already demonstrated its potential in many civilian applications, and the fa\c{c}ade inspection is among the most promising ones. In this paper, we focus on enabling the autonomous perception and control of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Yang Lyu , Muqing Cao , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

For autonomous vehicles to operate without human intervention, information sharing from local sensors plays a fundamental role. This can be challenging to handle with bandwidth-constrained communication systems, which calls for the adoption…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Matteo Bordin , Marco Giordani , Michele Polese , Tommaso Melodia , Michele Zorzi

In this paper, we propose an autonomous UAV path planning framework using deep reinforcement learning approach. The objective is to employ a self-trained UAV as a flying mobile unit to reach spatially distributed moving or static targets in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Omar Bouhamed , Hakim Ghazzai , Hichem Besbes , Yehia Massoud

We present a multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle control (UAV) and estimation system for supporting replicable research through realistic simulations and real-world experiments. We propose a unique multi-frame localization paradigm for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tomas Baca , Matej Petrlik , Matous Vrba , Vojtech Spurny , Robert Penicka , Daniel Hert , Martin Saska

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

An autonomous indoor aerial vehicle requires reliable simul- taneous localization and mapping (SLAM), accurate flight control, and robust path planning for navigation. This paper presents a system level combination of these existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Lachlan Dowling , Tomas Poblete , Isaac Hook , Hao Tang , Ying Tan , Will Glenn , Ranjith R Unnithan

In this paper, we develop a distributed mechanism for spectrum sharing among a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and licensed terrestrial networks. This method can provide a practical solution for situations where the UAV network…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Alireza Shamsoshoara , Mehrdad Khaledi , Fatemeh Afghah , Abolfazl Razi , Jonathan Ashdown

Harnessing human movements to command an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) holds the potential to revolutionize their deployment, rendering it more intuitive and user-centric. In this research, we introduce a novel methodology adept at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Akash Chaudhary , Tiago Nascimento , Martin Saska

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging in commercial spaces and will support many applications and services, such as smart agriculture, dynamic network deployment, and network coverage extension, surveillance and security. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-26 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Vuk Marojevic

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely applied in civil applications, such as disaster relief, agriculture and cargo transportation, etc. With the massive number of UAV flight activities, the anti-collision technologies aiming to avoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Zhiqing Wei , Zeyang Meng , Meichen Lai , Huici Wu , Jiarong Han , Zhiyong Feng

This paper proposes a control algorithm for a UAV to circumnavigate an unknown target at a fixed radius when the location information of the UAV is unavailable. By assuming that the UAV has a constant velocity, the control algorithm makes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-25 Araz Hashemi , Yongcan Cao , David Casbeer , George Yin