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The emerging global market for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) services is anticipated to reach USD 58.4 billion by 2026, spurring significant efforts to safely integrate routine UAV operations into the national airspace in a manner that they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jasmin Martin , Jenna Riseley , Jason J. Ford

With the advancement of collaborative perception, the role of aerial-ground collaborative perception, a crucial component, is becoming increasingly important. The demand for collaborative perception across different perspectives to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yuchao Wang , Peirui Cheng , Pengju Tian , Ziyang Yuan , Liangjin Zhao , Jing Tian , Wensheng Wang , Zhirui Wang , Xian Sun

Uncontrolled emissions of gases from industrial accidents and disasters result in huge loss of life and property. Such extreme events require a quick and reliable survey of the site for effective rescue strategy planning. To achieve these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Maryam Khalid , Edward W. Knightly

Ground segmentation in point cloud data is the process of separating ground points from non-ground points. This task is fundamental for perception in autonomous driving and robotics, where safety and reliable operation depend on the precise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Muhammad Haider Khan Lodhi , Christoph Hertzberg

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are considered cutting-edge technology with highly cost-effective and flexible usage scenarios. Although many papers have reviewed the application of UAVs in agriculture, the review of the application for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Weijie Kuang , Hann Woei Ho , Ye Zhou , Shahrel Azmin Suandi , Farzad Ismail

Accurate detection of objects in 3D point clouds is a central problem in many applications, such as autonomous navigation, housekeeping robots, and augmented/virtual reality. To interface a highly sparse LiDAR point cloud with a region…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Yin Zhou , Oncel Tuzel

With the increasing prevalence of drones in various industries, the navigation and tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in challenging environments, particularly GNSS-denied areas, have become crucial concerns. To address this need,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Iacopo Catalano , Xianjia Yu , Jorge Pena Queralta

The vision of unmanned aerial vehicles is very significant for UAV-related applications such as search and rescue, landing on a moving platform, etc. In this work, we have developed an integrated system for the UAV landing on the moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Kangcheng Liu

Drones, also known as unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), have revolutionised various industries, from farming to national security. (Wexler., Lesley. 2016) However, their broad use has revealed a severe weakness in cybersecurity. (Jean-Paul…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Charles Abdulrazak

The use of small and remotely controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, has increased in recent years. This goes in parallel with misuse episodes, with an evident threat to the safety of people or facilities. As a result, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Fredrik Svanström , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Cristofer Englund

Action recognition in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) poses unique challenges due to significant view variations along the vertical spatial axis. Unlike traditional ground-based settings, UAVs capture actions at a wide range of altitudes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Wenxuan Liu , Zhuo Zhou , Xuemei Jia , Siyuan Yang , Wenxin Huang , Xian Zhong , Chia-Wen Lin

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectories for multiple UAVs while satisfying requirements of connectivity with ground base stations (GBSs) is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

In this paper, we address the vision-based autonomous landing problem in complex urban environments using deep neural networks for semantic segmentation and risk assessment. We propose employing the SegFormer, a state-of-the-art visual…

This paper tackles the problem of positioning a swarm of UAVs inside a completely unknown terrain, having as objective to maximize the overall situational awareness. The situational awareness is expressed by the number and quality of unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Dimitrios I. Koutras , Athanasios Ch. Kapoutsis , Elias B. Kosmatopoulos

Unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, have emerged as a disruptive technology with the potential to revolutionize operations across various industries. Drones are the fast-growing internet-of-things technology and are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Ali Kaan Kurbanzade , Ansaar M. Baig , Sanjay Mehrotra

There is a risk of collision when multiple UAVs land simultaneously without communication on the same platform. This work accomplishes vision-based autonomous landing and uses a deep-learning-based method to realize collision avoidance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Tianpei Liao , Amal Haridevan , Yibo Liu , Jinjun Shan

Fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are one of the most commonly used platforms for the burgeoning Low-altitude Economy (LAE) and Urban Air Mobility (UAM), due to their long endurance and high-speed capabilities. Classical obstacle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Haochen Chai , Meimei Su , Yang Lyu , Zhunga Liu , Chunhui Zhao , Quan Pan

Emergency communication is extremely important to aid rescue and search operation in the aftermath of any disaster. In such scenario, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks may be used to complement the damaged cellular networks over large…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Sharvari N P , Dibakar Das , Jyotsna Bapat , Debabrata Das

Multi-robot target tracking is a fundamental problem that requires coordinated monitoring of dynamic entities in applications such as precision agriculture, environmental monitoring, disaster response, and security surveillance. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xiaofan Yu , Yuwei Wu , Katherine Mao , Ye Tian , Vijay Kumar , Tajana Rosing

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly popular in various applications, especially with the emergence of 6G systems and networks. However, their widespread adoption has also led to concerns regarding security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Safaa Menssouri , Mamady Delamou , Khalil Ibrahimi , El Mehdi Amhoud