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Jingmin Zhang, Xiaokui Yue, Haofei Zhang and Tiantian Xiao
This paper investigates the air?ground cooperative time-varying formation-tracking control problem of a heterogeneous cluster system composed of an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Initially, the structure of the UAV?UG...
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Yasuhiro Fukuoka, Kazuyuki Oshino and Ahmad Najmuddin Ibrahim
We propose a mechanical design for a simple teleoperated unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) to negotiate uneven terrain. UGVs are typically classified into legged, legged-wheeled, wheeled, and tanked forms. Legged vehicles can significantly shift their center...
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Dong-Min Seo, Hyun-Jung Woo, Won-Hwa Hong, Hyuncheol Seo and Wook-Jung Na
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been employed to perform aerial surveys in many industries owing to their versatility, relatively low cost, and efficiency. Ground control points (GCPs) are used for georeferencing to ensure orthophoto geolocation/pos...
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Jin-Hyo Kim and Sang-Min Sung
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry is an emerging means of acquiring high-precision rapid spatial information and data because it is cost-effective and highly efficient. However, securing uniform quality in the results of UAV photogrammetry is ...
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Senlin Guan, Kimiyasu Takahashi, Keiko Nakano, Koichiro Fukami and Wonjae Cho
Many cropping systems, notably for rice or soybean production, rely largely on arable land levelness. In this study, an automated levelness assessment system (ALAS) for evaluating lowland levelness is proposed. The measurement accuracy of total station, ...
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Jia Yang, Xiaopeng Li, Lei Luo, Lewen Zhao, Juan Wei and Teng Ma
Recently, multirotor UAVs have been widely used in high-precision terrain mapping, cadastral surveys and other fields due to their low cost, flexibility, and high efficiency. Indirect georeferencing of ground control points (GCPs) is often required to ob...
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Charalampos Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Mitridis and Kyros Yakinthos
In this study, the conceptual design of an unmanned ground effect vehicle (UGEV), based on in-house analytical tools and CFD calculations, followed by flow control studies, is presented. Ground effect vehicles can operate, in a more efficient way, over c...
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Harry A. G. Pointon, Benjamin J. McLoughlin, Christian Matthews and Frederic A. Bezombes
In this paper, we present an alternate method for the generation and implementation of the sensor measurement variance used in an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). Furthermore, it demonstrates the limitations of a conventional EKF implementation and postulat...
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Julián Toma?tík, Martin Mokro?, ?imon Salon, Franti?ek Chudý and Daniel Tunák
This study focuses on the horizontal and vertical accuracy of point-clouds based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery. The DJI Phantom 3 Professional unmanned aerial vehicle and Agisoft PhotoScan Professional software were used for the evaluation. Th...
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Pablo R. Palafox, Mario Garzón, João Valente, Juan Jesús Roldán and Antonio Barrientos
Autonomous takeoff, tracking, and landing maneuvers on a moving target with application to a fleet of robots with aerial and ground vehicles that need to operate for extended periods of time, as in Search and Rescue tasks.
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Masoud Latifinavid and Aydin Azizi
The application of robotic systems is widespread in all fields of life and sport. Tennis ball collection robots have recently become popular because of their potential for saving time and energy and increasing the efficiency of training sessions. In this...
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Lizhen Wu, Chang Wang, Pengpeng Zhang and Changyun Wei
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) landing remains a challenge in uncertain environments, e.g., landing on a mobile ground platform such as an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) without knowing its motion dynamics. A traditional PID (Proportional, Integ...
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Changjie Wu, Xiaolong Tang and Xiaoyan Xu
Smart agriculture represents a significant trend in agricultural development, given its potential to enhance operational efficiency and reduce labor intensity. Despite the adoption of modern greenhouse technologies, such as sensors and automation systems...
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Chaoyue Li, Huan Yang, Sha Liu, Shiyu Feng, Lei Xu and Zhiling Wang
In this study, a ground-based washing inerting (GBWI) method was proposed, and the application of GBWI in the field of fire prevention and explosion suppression of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fuel tanks was studied using a volume of fluid (VOF) two-pha...
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Yixin Huang, Xiaojia Xiang, Han Zhou, Dengqing Tang and Yihao Sun
In order to solve the problem of how to efficiently control a large-scale swarm Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system, which performs complex tasks with limited manpower in a non-ideal environment, this paper proposes a parallel UAV swarm control method. ...
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Pericles Panagiotou, Thomas Dimopoulos, Stylianos Dimitriou and Kyros Yakinthos
The current study presents a low-fidelity, quasi-3D aerodynamic analysis method for Blended-Wing-Body (BWB) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) configurations. A tactical BWB UAV experimental prototype is used as a reference platform. The method utilizes 2D pa...
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Vittorio Casella, Filiberto Chiabrando, Marica Franzini and Ambrogio Maria Manzino
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems are heavily adopted nowadays to collect high-resolution imagery with the purpose of documenting and mapping environment and cultural heritage. Such data are currently processed by programs based on the Structure from...
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Young Hoon Jo and Seonghyuk Hong
Three-dimensional digital technology is important in the maintenance and monitoring of cultural heritage sites. This study focuses on using a combination of terrestrial laser scanning and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry to establish a three-...
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João Valente, Juan Jesús Roldán, Mario Garzón and Antonio Barrientos
This paper presents a novel tool capable of collecting thermal signatures inside a building by using low-cost IR temperature sensors mounted on-board an aerial platform. The proposed system aims to facilitate the detection of heat loss inside buildings, ...
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Salvatore Barba, Maurizio Barbarella, Alessandro Di Benedetto, Margherita Fiani, Lucas Gujski and Marco Limongiello
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetric survey of an archaeological site has proved itself to be particularly efficient. In order to obtain highly accurate and reliable results, it is necessary to design carefully the flight plan and the geo-re...
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