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Dawei Bie, Daochun Li, Huadong Li, Zi Kan and Zhan Tu
In this work, we use a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation to comprehend how the two wing arrangement variables, i.e., inner/outer wing proportion and mid-stroke dihedral, affect the lift characteristic of a bat-inspired span ...
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Xin Dong, Yuzhe Gao, Jinglong Guo, Shiyu Zuo, Jinwu Xiang, Daochun Li and Zhan Tu
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) autonomous approaching and landing on mobile platforms always play an important role in various application scenarios. Such a complicated autonomous task requires an integrated multi-sensor system to guarantee environmenta...
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Yao Lei, Jiading Wang and Wenjie Yang
Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) usually suffer from several challenges, not least of which are unsatisfactory hover efficiency and limited fly time. This paper discusses the aerodynamic characteristics of a novel Hex-rotor MAV with a coaxial rotor capable o...
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Jeremy Dawkins and Levi DeVries
This paper presents the modeling, control design, and efficiency analysis of a micro-quadrotor aerial vehicle with airfoils. We derive the equations of motion for a micro-quadrotor (length 0.15 m and mass 0.03 kg) outfitted with two symmetric airfoils th...
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Franklin Drummond and Gregory Huff
An Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) has been developed which is based on an aerodynamically functionalized planar wideband antenna. The antenna utilizes a planar circular dipole metallization scheme. The aerodynamic structure implements a planform similar to...
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Krzysztof Sibilski, Miroslaw Nowakowski, Dariusz Rykaczewski, Pawel Szczepaniak, Andrzej Zyluk, Anna Sibilska-Mroziewicz, Michal Garbowski and Wieslaw Wróblewski
A micro air vehicle (MAV) is a class of miniature unmanned aerial vehicles that has a size restriction and may be autonomous. Fixed-wing MAVs are very attractive for outdoor surveillance missions since they generally offer better payload and endurance ca...
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Dorijan Radocaj, Ivan Pla?cak and Mladen Juri?ic
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) in precision agriculture (PA) represent a cornerstone for field mapping, machinery guidance, and variable rate technology. However, recent improvements in GNSS components (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou) and ...
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Bo Gao, Baowang Lian and Chengkai Tang
Traditional Micro-Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) are usually equipped with a low-cost Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and monocular cameras, how to achieve high precision and high reliability navigation under the framework of low computational complexity is the ...
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Claudio Pascarelli, Manuela Marra, Giulio Avanzini and Angelo Corallo
Planning and executing missions in terms of trajectory generation are challenging problems in the operational phase of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) lifecycle. The growing adoption of UAVs in several civil applications requires the definition of precis...
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Emanuele Palazzolo and Cyrill Stachniss
Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) are an excellent platform for autonomous exploration. Most MAVs rely mainly on cameras for buliding a map of the 3D environment. Therefore, vision-based MAVs require an efficient exploration algorithm to select viewpoints tha...
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Emanuele Palazzolo and Cyrill Stachniss
Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) are an excellent platform for autonomous exploration. Most MAVs rely mainly on cameras for buliding a map of the 3D environment. Therefore, vision-based MAVs require an efficient exploration algorithm to select viewpoints tha...
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Stefan Hensel, Marin B. Marinov and Raphael Panter
In recent years, the advancement of micro-aerial vehicles has been rapid, leading to their widespread utilization across various domains due to their adaptability and efficiency. This research paper focuses on the development of a camera-based tracking s...
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Wei Huang, Qing Zhang, Jinsheng Xu, Jindong Wang, Jian Zheng and Xiong Chen
To investigate the flow mechanism of feather-like rough airfoils based on swift wings, computational simulations were employed to explore their overall aerodynamic characteristics in comparison to equivalent smooth airfoils. The study focused on angles o...
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Danilo Avola, Luigi Cinque, Angelo Di Mambro, Anxhelo Diko, Alessio Fagioli, Gian Luca Foresti, Marco Raoul Marini, Alessio Mecca and Daniele Pannone
In recent years, small-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been used in many video surveillance applications, such as vehicle tracking, border control, dangerous object detection, and many others. Anomaly detection can represent a prerequisite of ...
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Lingling Wang, Yixin Liu, Li Fu, Yaning Wang and Ning Tang
Adaptive navigation is the core of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) conducting autonomous flights in diverse environments. Different navigation techniques are adopted according to the availability of navigation signals in the environment. MAVs must navigate ...
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Victor Alulema, Esteban Valencia, Edgar Cando, Victor Hidalgo and Dario Rodriguez
Despite the increasing demand of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for a wide range of civil applications, there are few methodologies for their initial sizing. Nowadays, classical methods, mainly developed for transport aircraft, have been adapted to UAVs...
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P. R. Resende, Mohsen Ayoobi and Alexandre M. Afonso
With the increasing global concerns about the impacts of byproducts from the combustion of fossil fuels, researchers have made significant progress in seeking alternative fuels that have cleaner combustion characteristics. Such fuels are most suitable fo...
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Chong Shen, Xiaochen Liu, Huiliang Cao, Yuchen Zhou, Jun Liu, Jun Tang, Xiaoting Guo, Haoqian Huang and Xuemei Chen
Animals have certain cognitive competence about the environment so they can correct their navigation errors. Inspired by the excellent navigational behavior of animals, this paper proposes a brain-like navigation scheme to improve the accuracy and intell...
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Travis J. Schuyler and Marcelo I. Guzman
The emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) has changed the composition of the atmosphere during the Anthropocene. Accurately documenting the sources and magnitude of GHGs emission is an important undertaking for discriminating the contributions of different...
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Tafsir Matin Johansson, Dimitrios Dalaklis and Aspasia Pastra
The current regulatory landscape that applies to maritime service robotics, aptly termed as robotics and autonomous systems (RAS), is quite complex. When it comes to patents, there are multifarious considerations in relation to vessel survey, inspection,...
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