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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has recently mandated that small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) be equipped with a transmitter that broadcasts the UAV's serial number, location, and altitude. The inclusion of a unique identifier in the form ...

Object detection on aerial images captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has a wide range of applications. Due to the variations in illumination, weather conditions and scene backgrounds, the testing images (target domain) typically exhibit ...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are necessary across diverse domains, including disaster surveillance and wildlife conservation. However, the development and evaluation of UAV-related algorithms often encounter a significant hurdle: the scarcity of ...

We use multi-agent systems to solve conflicts between drone flight paths (4D contracts) in urban traffic, installing safety and service quality. Intuitive corrective actions are chosen considering delay, quality, and energy. We explore different ...

In addition to cultural background and professional context, age can also influence user preferences for gestures when controlling drones. In this paper, we present an exploratory study of age-based differences in gesture selection and design for drone ...

As the adoption of UAVs grows steadily, more and more applications are being devised. In the scope of urban environments, initiatives like U-Space in Europe seek to standardize and regulate the different operations that can be undertaken by these ...

Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) is a network protocol specifically designed to leverage the advantages of Long Range technology. LoRaWAN is employed to connect Internet of Things devices through a long-range network infrastructure, providing a ...

In GPS-denied UAV flight, understanding the visual scene ahead is crucial. This paper focuses on cross-view geo-localization within the realm of the UAV's viewpoint in the Coarse-to-Fine problem setting. Previous research in this area has been limited ...

In this work we used a dance performance to explore physical human-drone interactions during a collaborative task. We created drone behaviors to allow partnership and increase physicality between the dancer and drone. We found that extended moments of ...

Drones (micro unmanned aerial vehicles) are becoming more prevalent in applications that bring them into close human spaces. This is made possible in part by clear drone-to-human communication strategies. However, current auditory and visual ...

Next-generation Aerial Vehicles (AVs) demand multipath Air-to-Ground (A2G) connectivity to maintain reliable communications for safety-critical services. While utilizing redundant links improves the achievable Quality of Service (QoS), the link usage ...

In the past decade, the vulnerability of aircraft communications against low-resourced attackers has received significant attention both in the information security community and from aviation industry and regulators. Until now, research on attacks ...

Since some years, research on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been very popular, and because of that a wide range of commercial and military applications already exists. Nowadays, the trend towards autonomous flying is growing steadily. ...

Recent years have witnessed a rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and their applications in various fields. At the same time, the utilization of UAVs also raises serious security and safety concerns. Given a large number of UAV-related ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining popularity in many governmental and civilian sectors. The combination of aerial mobility and data sensing capabilities facilitates previously impossible workloads. UAVs are normally piloted by remote operators ...

This work has developed an iteratively refined understanding of participants' natural perceptions and responses to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight paths, or gestures. This includes both what they believe the UAV is trying to communicate to them, in ...

In this paper, we investigate the problem of optimizing the network performance of a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in static positions. More precisely, we allow each UAV to change its orientation in order to improve the quality of ...

Drones are an exciting technology that is quickly being adopted in the global consumer market. Africa has become a center of deployment with the first drone airport established in Rwanda and drones currently being used for applications such as medical ...

This hands-on workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss the cultural aspects of Human-Drone Interaction design. An increasing body of work [2, 3, 4, 8] shows that the one-fits-all model of interaction might be obsolete, ...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be used to support car-to-car communications when the infrastructures are not available or are unreliable. However, since cars in vehicular communications are mobile, the UAV that acts as a relay should move ...