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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently shown great performance collecting visual data through autonomous exploration and mapping in building inspection. Yet, the number of studies is limited considering the post processing of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Fatih Kucuksubasi , Arzu Sorguc

Assessing collision risk is a critical challenge to effective traffic safety management. The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to address this issue has shown much promise, given their wide visual field and movement flexibility.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Shuya Zong , Sikai Chen , Majed Alinizzi , Yujie Li , Samuel Labi

Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a crucial tool in modern warfare, primarily due to their cost-effectiveness, risk reduction, and ability to perform a wider range of activities. The use of autonomous UAVs to conduct strike…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Meshari Aljohani , Ravi Mukkamalai , Stephen Olariu

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

This paper develops a flexible and robust robotic system for autonomous drawing on 3D surfaces. The system takes 2D drawing strokes and a 3D target surface (mesh or point clouds) as input. It maps the 2D strokes onto the 3D surface and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Ruishuang Liu , Weiwei Wan , Keisuke Koyama , Kensuke Harada

In this paper, we address the problem of adaptive path planning for accurate semantic segmentation of terrain using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The usage of UAVs for terrain monitoring and remote sensing is rapidly gaining momentum due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Felix Stache , Jonas Westheider , Federico Magistri , Marija Popović , Cyrill Stachniss

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 Vehicle (UAV) technology is a promising solution for providing high-quality mobile services to ground users, where a UAV with limited service coverage travels among multiple geographical user locations (e.g., hotspots) for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Kai Wang , Xiao Zhang , Lingjie Duan , Jun Tie

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as flying radio access network (RAN) nodes offers a promising complement to traditional fixed terrestrial deployments. More recently yet still in the context of wireless networks, drones have also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 David Gesbert , Omid Esrafilian , Junting Chen , Rajeev Gangula , Urbashi Mitra

Monitoring crop fields to map features like weeds can be efficiently performed with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can cover large areas in a short time due to their privileged perspective and motion speed. However, the need for…

In this paper we present an overview of the methods and systems that give rise to a flying robotic system capable of autonomous inspection, surveying, comprehensive multi-modal mapping and inventory tracking of construction sites with high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Huan Nguyen , Frank Mascarich , Tung Dang , Kostas Alexis

Agentic UAVs represent a new frontier in autonomous aerial intelligence, integrating perception, decision-making, memory, and collaborative planning to operate adaptively in complex, real-world environments. Driven by recent advances in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Ranjan Sapkota , Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis , Manoj Karkee

Radio maps find numerous applications in wireless communications and mobile robotics tasks, including resource allocation, interference coordination, and mission planning. Although numerous techniques have been proposed to construct radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Raju Shrestha , Daniel Romero , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become pivotal in domains spanning military, agriculture, surveillance, and logistics, revolutionizing data collection and environmental interaction. With the advancement in drone technology, there is a…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have emerged as versatile platforms, driving the demand for accurate modeling to support developmental testing. This paper proposes data-driven modeling software for UAV. Emphasizes the utilization of…

Miniaturized autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining popularity due to their small size, enabling new tasks such as indoor navigation or people monitoring. Nonetheless, their size and simple electronics pose severe challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Matteo Risso , Francesco Daghero , Beatrice Alessandra Motetti , Daniele Jahier Pagliari , Enrico Macii , Massimo Poncino , Alessio Burrello

Traditional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm missions rely heavily on expensive custom-made drones with onboard perception or external positioning systems, limiting their widespread adoption in research and education. To address this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiaowei Li , Kuan Xu , Fen Liu , Ruofei Bai , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAV) are a promising technology for smart farming related applications. Aerial monitoring of agriculture farms with UAV enables key decision-making pertaining to crop monitoring. Advancements in deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Mahdi Maktabdar Oghaz , Manzoor Razaak , Hamideh Kerdegari , Vasileios Argyriou , Paolo Remagnino

CCTV-based surveillance using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is considered a key technology for security in smart city environments. This paper creates a case where the UAVs with CCTV-cameras fly over the city area for flexible and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Won Joon Yun , Soohyun Park , Joongheon Kim , MyungJae Shin , Soyi Jung , David A. Mohaisen , Jae-Hyun Kim

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