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Sense and avoid technologies with applications to unmanned aircraft systems: Review and prospects
Xiang Yu,Youmin Zhang +1 more
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An overview on the recent progress in S &A technologies in the sequence of fundamental functions/components of S&A in sensing techniques, decision making, path planning, and path following is presented.About:
This article is published in Progress in Aerospace Sciences.The article was published on 2015-04-01. It has received 249 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: National Airspace System.read more
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Unmanned surface vehicles: An overview of developments and challenges
TL;DR: An overview of both historical and recent USVs development is provided, along with some fundamental definitions, and existing USVs GNC approaches are outlined and classified according to various criteria, such as their applications, methodologies, and challenges.
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Review of the Current State of UAV Regulations
TL;DR: An exploratory investigation of UAV regulations on the global scale, including a thorough literature review and a comparative analysis of national regulatory frameworks, reveals distinct variations in all the compared variables.
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Wildlife research and management methods in the 21st century: Where do unmanned aircraft fit in?1
Dominique Chabot,David M. Bird +1 more
TL;DR: Since the turn of the century, emerging unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have found increasingly diverse applications in wildlife science as convenient, very high-resolution remote sensing devices as discussed by the authors...
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Recent Advances in Pipeline Monitoring and Oil Leakage Detection Technologies: Principles and Approaches
TL;DR: This paper discusses pipeline leakage detection technologies and summarises the state-of-the-art achievements, and compares performance analysis is performed to provide a guide in determining which leak detection method is appropriate for particular operating settings.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) : Collision Avoidance Systems and Approaches
Jawad N. Yasin,Sherif A. S. Mohamed,Mohammad-Hashem Haghbayan,Jukka Heikkonen,Hannu Tenhunen,Juha Plosila +5 more
TL;DR: An in-depth survey of different collision avoidance techniques that are categorically explained along with a comparative analysis of the considered approaches w.r.t. different scenarios and technical aspects is provided.
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