...Anton Saveliev; Dmitry Anikin; Andrey Ronzhin; Vadim Agafonov; Gennady Erokhin Purpose A new method for positioning a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that collect data from seismic modules via wireless communication is proposed. Design/methodology/approach The developed method...

.... This is novel to maintain strength integrity with cost-effective solution, which will encourage new applications and usage. The paper is organised as follows: Section 1 titled as Introduction, talks about the challenges faced by the UAV sector along with its wide range of applications. Section 2 under...

... 2022 29 08 2022 06 12 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Octocopter Mechanical design V-frame Multirotor vehicle UAV V-frame octocopter Nomenclature F O V   = field of view F T h...

...Mariusz Szóstak; Tomasz Nowobilski; Abdul-Majeed Mahamadu; David Caparrós Pérez Purpose Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), colloquially called drones, are widely applied in many sectors of the economy, including the construction industry. They are used for building inspections, damage assessment...

...Valeriia Izhboldina; Igor Lebedev Purpose The successful application of the group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the tasks of monitoring large areas is becoming a promising direction in modern robotics. This paper aims to study the tasks related to the control of the UAV group while...

... hardware. Within this research a terrain map stitching algorithm was developed, based on video-sequence, taken from UAV (Figure 1), applicable to any data without need of telemetry. The algorithm is fully automated, its flexibility and reliability allows to compose field orthophotomaps with high accuracy...

.... Originality/value This paper presents the problem of missing publicly available data sets for high-altitude (100‒3,000 meters) UAV flights; the current state-of-the-art research studies performed to develop map-based localization system for UAVs depend on real-life test flights and custom-simulated data sets...

...Svetoslav Zabunov; Garo Mardirossian Purpose The purpose of this paper is to disclose a novel reconfiguration battery design suitable for electrically powered UAVs. Design/methodology/approach A design of a reconfigurable battery module is presented. Test setup with prototype battery module...

...Sergey V. Kuleshov; Alexandra A. Zaytseva; Alexey Y. Aksenov Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose the basis for the unification of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) group control protocols for the fast deployment of communication network on territories unsuitable for stationary nodes...

... estimation accuracies: 85 percent for viewpoints and 98.14 percent for poses. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discusses closely related work on perspective correction, pose estimation, and their applications to UAV-based scenarios. Section 3 describes our solution...

...N. Aswini; E. Krishna Kumar; S.V. Uma Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developments, types, the major functional components of UAV, challenges, and trends of UAVs, and among the various challenges, the authors are concentrating more...

...Jessica Da Costa Siqueira; Mario G. Perhinschi; Ghassan Al-Sinbol Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a simplified atmospheric model including constant wind, turbulence, gusts, and wind shear to provide simulation tools for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) design, testing, and evaluation...

...Dimitris Kaimaris; Petros Patias; Maria Sifnaiou Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and the comparison of image processing software. Design/methodology/approach Images from a drone are used and processed with new digital image processing software...

...Sanketh Ailneni; Sudesh K. Kashyap; N. Shantha Kumar Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present fusion of inertial navigation system (INS) and global positioning system (GPS) for estimating position, velocities, attitude and heading of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Design...

... at: Luca.petricca@hbv.no © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 UAV Autopilot ELKA Embedded system NAV/MAV Unmanned vehicles Furthermore, we also wanted flexibility and hardware independency, in order to use this board not only on a specific class of vehicles, but one that can be easily...

.... The purpose of this paper is to report on bioinspired implementations and flight tests of these sensors and reflexes on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The devices are used for the stabilization of UAVs in attitude, heading and position. The implementations were developed to test the hypothesis that current...

...Brenton K. Wilburn; Mario G. Perhinschi; Hever Moncayo; Ondrej Karas; Jennifer N. Wilburn Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the performance of several different UAV trajectory tracking algorithms in normal and abnormal flight conditions to investigate the fault‐tolerant...

...Haoyang Cheng; John Page; John Olsen Purpose This study aims to investigate the rule‐based decentralised control framework for a swarm of UAVs carrying out a cooperative ground target engagement mission scenario. Design/methodology/approach This study is to investigate the rule‐based...