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Farhad Samadzadegan, Farzaneh Dadrass Javan, Farnaz Ashtari Mahini and Mehrnaz Gholamshahi
Drones are becoming increasingly popular not only for recreational purposes but also in a variety of applications in engineering, disaster management, logistics, securing airports, and others. In addition to their useful applications, an alarming concern...
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Jiangkun Gong, Deren Li, Jun Yan, Huiping Hu and Deyong Kong
Current studies rarely mention radar detection of hybrid vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fixed-wing drones. We investigated radar signals of an industry-tier VTOL fixed-wing drone, TX25A, compared with the radar detection results of a quad-rotor dro...
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Asanka G. Perera, Yee Wei Law and Javaan Chahl
Aerial human action recognition is an emerging topic in drone applications. Commercial drone platforms capable of detecting basic human actions such as hand gestures have been developed. However, a limited number of aerial video datasets are available to...
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Elizabeth Brunton, Jessica Bolin, Javier Leon and Scott Burnett
Drones are often considered an unobtrusive method of monitoring terrestrial wildlife; however research into whether drones disturb wildlife is in its early stages. This research investigated the potential impacts of drone monitoring on a large terrestria...
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Iryna Heiets, Yi-Wei Kuo, Jiezhuoma La, Richard C.K. Yeun and Wim Verhagen
The world has been proactively seeking solutions to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus since 2020. A major defensive action is implementing contactless services into everyday activities to reduce viral spread. Drones can provide contactless service...
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Domenico Pascarella, Gabriella Gigante, Angela Vozella, Maurizio Sodano, Marco Ippolito, Pierre Bieber, Thomas Dubot and Edgar Martinavarro
The drone market?s growth poses a serious threat to the negligent, illicit, or non-cooperative use of drones, especially in airports and their surroundings. Effective protection of an airport against drone intrusions should guarantee mandatory safety lev...
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Mohamed Torky, Mohamed El-Dosuky, Essam Goda, Václav Sná?el and Aboul Ella Hassanien
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a powerful technology for introducing untraditional solutions to many challenges in non-military fields and industrial applications in the next few years. However, the limitations of a drone?s battery and t...
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Higinio González Jorge, Luis Miguel González de Santos, Noelia Fariñas Álvarez, Joaquin Martínez Sánchez and Fermin Navarro Medina
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the need to maximize the cleanliness of outside public services and the need to disinfect these areas to reduce the virus transmission. This work evaluates the possibilities of using unmanned aircraft systems for disinfect...
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Israel Quintanilla García, Norberto Vera Vélez, Pablo Alcaraz Martínez, Jordi Vidal Ull and Beatriz Fernández Gallo
On the one hand, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) have experienced great applicability surge in the recent years, arising as a promising technology with a wide field of use. On the other hand, healthcare, a critical system in modern society, is subject t...
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One of the most innovative solutions treated in the literature in order to reduce the environmental impact of urban parcel delivery logistics is the use of drones for delivery on the last kilometer. Consequently, nowadays, the primary challenge is essent...
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Asma Troudi, Sid-Ali Addouche, Sofiene Dellagi and Abderrahman El Mhamedi
One of the most innovative solutions treated in the literature in order to reduce the environmental impact of urban parcel delivery logistics is the use of drones for delivery on the last kilometer. Consequently, nowadays, the primary challenge is essent...
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Jie-Tong Zou and Xiang-Yin Dai
This research aims to develop a visual tracking system for a UAV which guides a drone to track a mobile robot and accurately land on it when it stops moving. Two LEDs with different colors were installed on the bottom of the drone. The visual tracking sy...
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Michelle Sing Yee Hii, Patrick Courtney and Paul G. Royall
This study tests the impact of drone transportation on the quality of a medicine. Modelling the critical process parameters of drone flight, the effects of temperature and vibration on insulin were investigated using the pharmacopoeia methods. The medici...
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Mircea Constantin ?cheau, Monica Violeta Achim, Larisa Gabudeanu, Viorela Ligia Vaidean, Alexandru Lucian Vîlcea and Liliana Apetri
Drones have been included in more and more activities in various domains, such as military, commercial and personal use. The existing legislative framework insufficiently addresses the responsibility and preventive measures angles in case of vulnerabilit...
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Aleksandra Pachuta, Boguslawa Berner, Jerzy Chojnacki, Gerhard Moitzi, Jirí Dvorák, Anna Keutgen, Jan Najser, Jan Kielar, Tomá? Najser and Marcel Mikeska
The study aimed to assess the quality of spraying of ornamental conifer using a multi-rotor drone. We examined how the speed of drone movement and the propellers? spin speed can affect the deposition quality of the sprayed liquid in the crown of blue spr...
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Andrew M. Wilson, Kenneth S. Boyle, Jennifer L. Gilmore, Cody J. Kiefer and Matthew F. Walker
Drones are now widely used to study wildlife, but their application in the study of bioacoustics is limited. Drones can be used to collect data on bird vocalizations, but an ongoing concern is that noise from drones could change bird vocalization behavio...
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Denise Spaan, Claire Burke, Owen McAree, Filippo Aureli, Coral E. Rangel-Rivera, Anja Hutschenreiter, Steve N. Longmore, Paul R. McWhirter and Serge A. Wich
Accurate and precise population estimates form the basis of conservation action but are lacking for many arboreal species due to the high costs and difficulty in surveying these species. Recently, researchers have started to use drones to obtain data on ...
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A novel high-voltage powerline inspection system was investigated, which consists of the cooperated ground vehicle and drone. The ground vehicle acts as a mobile platform that can launch and recycle the drone, while the drone can fly over the powerline f...
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Khalifa AL-Dosari, Ziad Hunaiti and Wamadeva Balachandran
Drone deployment in Qatar has been lagging behind that in other countries due to a wide range of reported challenges. This study developed a framework to address these operational gaps and serve as a roadmap for different stakeholders to enable drone app...
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Suhare Solaiman, Emad Alsuwat and Rajwa Alharthi
In this paper, a framework for simultaneous tracking and recognizing drone targets using a low-cost and small-sized millimeter-wave radar is presented. The radar collects the reflected signals of multiple targets in the field of view, including drone and...
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