ReviewIntelligent service robotics2023
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): practical aspects, applications, open challenges, security issues, and future trends.
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51 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Establishing a knowledge structure for yield prediction in cereal crops using unmanned aerial vehicles.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Pooled it
- Acoustic Vector Sensor-Based UAV Sound Source Localization via Covariance Enhancement and Confidence Guidance Tracking.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Experimental Evaluation of GNSS Receiver Vulnerability to Spoofing and Jamming Using SDR-Based Testbed.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Light Intensity-Driven Bidirectional Photoresponse Vision Sensor for Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance System.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Decoupling pitch and angle of attack with a variable-incidence wing extends quadrotor flight endurance.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- An autonomous single-actuator UAV with omnidirectional field of view, high agility, and collision resistance.Nature communications · 2026Article
- HydroAir: An Air-Propelled Surface Vehicle for Autonomous Navigation and 3D Reconstruction in Shallow and Obstacle-Rich Aquatic Environments.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A federated learning-benchmarking framework for privacy-preserving UAV intrusion detection using adaptive aggregation algorithms.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Metrological Evaluation of Selected Low-Cost NDIR COSensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Recent Developments and Applications of Drone Swarm: Techniques, Strategies, and Challenges.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Research on UAV Path Planning Based on Enhanced Artificial Lemming Algorithm.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Fault-tolerant control of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle by using adaptive fuzzy T-S and linear matrix inversion approach.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A new adaptive federated learning approach for privacy preserving UAV anomaly detection under non-IID distributions.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A Review of Wireless Charging Solutions for FANETs in IoT-Enabled Smart Environments.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Structural Vibration Analysis of UAVs Under Ground Engine Test Conditions.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Reconfigurable intelligent surface and UAV coordination for reliable THz wireless networks.PloS one · 2026Article
- VLM-Nav: Mapless UAV navigation using monocular vision driven by vision-language models.PloS one · 2026Article
- Hybrid grey Wolf-Cuckoo search optimized linear quadratic regulator for robust quadrotor control.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- An efficient reparameterized small object detection transformer for thermal infrared images.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Micro aluminum-air batteries for extended operational duration of small-scale quadrotors.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have emerged as a ubiquitous and integral part of our society. They appear in great diversity in a multiplicity of applications for economic, commercial, leisure, military and academic purposes. The drone industry has seen a sharp uptake in the last decade as a model to manufacture and deliver convergence, offering synergy by incorporating multiple technologies. It is due to technological trends and rapid advancements in control, miniaturization, and computerization, which culminate in secure, lightweight, robust, more-accessible and cost-efficient UAVs. UAVs support implicit particularities including access to disaster-stricken zones, swift mobility, airborne missions and payload features. Despite these appealing benefits, UAVs face limitations in operability due to several critical concerns in terms of flight autonomy, path planning, battery endurance, flight time and limited payload carrying capability, as intuitively it is not recommended to load heavy objects such as batteries. As a result, the primary goal of this research is to provide insights into the potentials of UAVs, as well as their characteristics and functionality issues. This study provides a comprehensive review of UAVs, types, swarms, classifications, charging methods and regulations. Moreover, application scenarios, potential challenges and security issues are also examined. Finally, future research directions are identified to further hone the research work. We believe these insights will serve as guidelines and motivations for relevant researchers.
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