Event-Based Time Varying Formation Control for Multiple Quadrotor UAVs with Markovian Switching Topologies by Zhen Zhou, Hongbin Wang, Zhongquan Hu

“…Time varying formation control problem for a group of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) under Markovian switching topologies is investigated through a modified dynamic event-triggered control protocol. …”
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A Systematic Review of the UAV Technology Usage in ASEAN by Adel Gohari, B. ANUAR AHMAD, Lawali Rabiu, B. A. RUZAIRI RAHIM, A.S.M. Supa'at, I. M. NASSRIN ELAMIN, M. MOHAMMED GISMALLA, Suhail Ibrahim Al-Dharrab, A. ROZEHA RASHID, Sophan Wahyudi Nawawi, Nazri Nasir, Mohd Adib Bin Sarijari, B. NORHADIJA DARWIN, Ali Hussein Muqaibel

“…Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging and have been globally incorporated in wide range of technologies for various purposes due to its advantages over conventional techniques. …”
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Progress and challenges on air-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Materials, structures, and systems by Xiaoyu Wu, Shuang Xing, Jun Luo, Haijiang Wang, Fuqiang Huang, Chen Zhao

“…As a new star in research field of fuel cell, AO-PEMFCs shows great superiority for small-size portable power source, especially unmanned aerial vehicles, backup generators, and off-grid or emergency power applications. …”
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Visual–Inertial Autonomous UAV Navigation in Complex Illumination and Highly Cluttered Under-Canopy Environments by Leyang Zhao, Weixi Wang, Qizhi He, Li Yan, Xiaoming Li

“…The under-canopy environment, which is inherently inaccessible to humans, necessitates the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for data collection. The implementation of UAV autonomous navigation in such environments faces challenges, including dense obstacles, GNSS signal interference, and varying lighting conditions. …”
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Toward Dynamic Monitoring and Suppressing Uncertainty in Wildfire by Multiple Unmanned Air Vehicle System by Sharon Rabinovich, Renwick E. Curry, Gabriel H. Elkaim

“…This study thus suggests that an efficient solution for suppressing uncertainty in monitoring a wildfire is to use a fleet of low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles that can be deployed quickly. Further research is needed on other deployment schemes that work in different natural disaster case studies.…”
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Color UAV Image Edge Detection Based on Improved Fireworks Algorithm by Dujin Liu, Bi Liang, Jie Li

“…However, when dealing with color images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), there are certain limitations, such as large operations, multiple noise sources, easy distortion, and missing information in edge detection. …”
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Cooperative Localization of Multi-UAVs via Dynamic Nonparametric Belief Propagation under GPS Signal Loss Condition by Jiuqing Wan, Liping Zhong, Fan Zhang

“…Self-localization is critical for many unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) tasks such as formation flight, path planning, and activity coordination. …”
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Position Control Using Trajectory Tracking and State Estimation of a Quad-rotor by Onur Sarıpınar, Muharrem Mercimek

“…Quad-rotor aircrafts are unmanned aerial vehicles that have gained significant popularity in recent years and have been developed for use in many areas. …”
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Path Optimization of Mobile Sink Node in Wireless Sensor Network Water Monitoring System by Fan Chao, Zhiqin He, Aiping Pang, Hongbo Zhou, Junjie Ge

“…Based on the high maneuverability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a mobile data collection scheme is proposed, which uses UAV as a mobile sink node in WSN water monitoring and transmits data wirelessly to collect monitoring node data efficiently and flexibly. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Hemp Fiber-Reinforced Polypropylene Composites for Drone Propeller Guard Application by Witawat Singsang, Thanasak Khamsin, Chayapol Prachumchon, Anurak Rodbumrung, Benjamas Netiworaruksa, Natkrita Prasoetsopha, Ing-orn Sittitanadol

“…A propeller guard is an instrument that helps to avoid Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drone damage. Commercially, they are made from an engineering plastic such as Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS). …”
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Development of an experimental setup for propeller performance measurements by Pugna Andreea, Hrab Călin, Hînsa Liviu-Nicolae, Hopârtean Andrei, Giurgea Corina-Maria, Marcu Lucian

“…With the increasing demand for efficient and adaptable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), optimizing propeller performance has become essential to enhancing energy efficiency and thrust. …”
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Variation in Anti-icing Power of Superhydrophobic Electrothermal Film under Different Temperatures and Wind Speeds by Shijie Xue, Yihua Liu, Yu Wang, Bing Xiao, Xiaoxin Shi, Jingchun Yao, Xianglian Lv, Weizheng Yuan, Yang He

“…Anti-icing with low-energy consumption has important research value for unmanned aerial vehicles. In this study, a superhydrophobic electrothermal film for anti-icing applications was designed and prepared, and power consumption experiments were conducted at different temperatures and wind speeds in an icing wind tunnel. …”
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Utilizing the Finite Fourier Series to Generate Quadrotor Trajectories Through Multiple Waypoints by Yevhenii Kovryzhenko, Ehsan Taheri

“…Motion planning is critical for ensuring precise and efficient operations of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). While polynomial parameterization has been the prevailing approach, its limitations in handling complex trajectory requirements have motivated the exploration of alternative methods. …”
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Adaptive sensing scheme using naive Bayes classification for environment monitoring with drone by Yao-Hua Ho, Yu-Te Huang, Hao-Hua Chu, Ling-Jyh Chen

“…To collect data from those sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles are used to act as data mules to overcome the problem of collecting data in challenging environments. …”
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Research on Information Fusion of Computer Vision and Radar Signals in UAV Target Identification by Yuan Wei, Tao Hong, Chaoqun Fang

“…The small size, sluggish flying speed, low flight altitude, and low electromagnetic intensity of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have put enormous strain on air traffic management and airspace security. …”
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Rare plants detection using a YOLOv3 neural network by L.A. Gorodetskaya, A.Y. Denisova, L.M. Kavelenova, V.A. Fedoseev

“…To reduce the human impact on the natural habitat of plants and simplify the monitoring process, we propose the use of automatic analysis of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) data using the Yolov3 neural network. …”
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Drone Landing and Reinforcement Learning: State-of-Art, Challenges and Opportunities by Jose Amendola, Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi, Ajit Jha

“…Unmanned aerial vehicles, and special multirotor drones, have shown great relevance in a plethora of missions that require high affordance, field of view, and precision. …”
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SINDy and PD-Based UAV Dynamics Identification for MPC by Bryan S. Guevara, José Varela-Aldás, Daniel C. Gandolfo, Juan M. Toibero

“…This study proposes a comprehensive framework for the identification of nonlinear dynamics in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), integrating data-driven methodologies with theoretical modeling approaches. …”
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UAV Path Planning Based on Improved A∗ and DWA Algorithms by Xiong Bai, Haikun Jiang, Junjie Cui, Kuan Lu, Pengyun Chen, Ming Zhang

“…This work proposes a path planning algorithm based on A∗ and DWA to achieve global path optimization while satisfying security and speed requirements for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The algorithm first preprocesses the map for irregular obstacles encountered by a UAV in flight, including grid preprocessing for arc-shaped obstacles and convex preprocessing for concave obstacles. …”
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UAV selection for high-speed train communication using OTFS modulation by Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed, Sherief Hashima

“…This paper proposes using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to deliver high data rate wireless connectivity for HSTs, taking advantage of their ability to fly, hover, and maneuver at low altitudes. …”
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