Latest Research in UAV Applications and Optimization

45 research papers · 2026 median publication year

Top Research Topics in UAV Applications and Optimization

Highest-Cited Papers

  1. Trading Metal for Lives: What Real-World Warfare Teaches About the Future of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs)
  2. Trading Metal for Lives: What Real-World Warfare Teaches About the Future of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs)
  3. Smart Home Assistant Rover Robot with Voice Control and Object Detection
  4. Smart Home Assistant Rover Robot with Voice Control and Object Detection
  5. Towards Collaborative Autonomous Operations in Power Infrastructure: A Robotic Fine Manipulation Framework
  6. RoboFind: Multi-Agent Personalized Object Search for People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision
  7. Pretraining and time–frequency representations for closed-set passive RF drone classification under wireless interference
  8. AI for Drone Warfare: An Experimental Survey
  9. Decision Compression and Alert Saturation in Combat UAV Operations Under Electronic Warfare Conditions in Ukraine
  10. LOTUSim-Energy: A Maritime Simulator for Human-Drone Interaction in Autonomous Offshore Operation \& Maintenance
  11. Gimbal-Based Human Tracking for Companion Robots Using Continual Learning
  12. Markets at War: the Procurement of Ukrainian Drones
  13. Utilizing ADS-B and Computer Vision for Runway Status Lights
  14. RFID-based Relative Localization for Nanodrone Swarm Platooning
  15. Simplifying ROS2 controllers with a modular architecture for robot-agnostic reference generation
  16. STCL: Semantic Trajectory-Based Cross-Modal Alignment for Resilient IIoT with Human-Guided Consistency
  17. Nobody's drone
  18. Nobody's drone
  19. Jamming-free reliable peg-in-hole assembly with unknown in-hand pose using visuotactile sensing
  20. Risk-Aware Railway Obstacle Detection via Track Segmentation and Lateral Distance Estimation
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UAV Applications and Optimization

45 papers

Top Topics (10)

Robotics8
UAV Applications and Optimization5
Military Strategy and Technology2
IoT-based Smart Home Systems2
Air Traffic Management and Optimization2
Human-Computer Interaction2
International Maritime Law Issues2
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI2
European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies2
Power Line Inspection Robots1

Top Publications (20)

1.Trading Metal for Lives: What Real-World Warfare Teaches About the Future of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs)2.Trading Metal for Lives: What Real-World Warfare Teaches About the Future of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs)3.Smart Home Assistant Rover Robot with Voice Control and Object Detection4.Smart Home Assistant Rover Robot with Voice Control and Object Detection5.Towards Collaborative Autonomous Operations in Power Infrastructure: A Robotic Fine Manipulation Framework6.RoboFind: Multi-Agent Personalized Object Search for People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision7.Pretraining and time–frequency representations for closed-set passive RF drone classification under wireless interference8.AI for Drone Warfare: An Experimental Survey9.Decision Compression and Alert Saturation in Combat UAV Operations Under Electronic Warfare Conditions in Ukraine10.LOTUSim-Energy: A Maritime Simulator for Human-Drone Interaction in Autonomous Offshore Operation \& Maintenance11.Gimbal-Based Human Tracking for Companion Robots Using Continual Learning12.Markets at War: the Procurement of Ukrainian Drones13.Utilizing ADS-B and Computer Vision for Runway Status Lights14.RFID-based Relative Localization for Nanodrone Swarm Platooning15.Simplifying ROS2 controllers with a modular architecture for robot-agnostic reference generation16.STCL: Semantic Trajectory-Based Cross-Modal Alignment for Resilient IIoT with Human-Guided Consistency17.Nobody's drone18.Nobody's drone19.Jamming-free reliable peg-in-hole assembly with unknown in-hand pose using visuotactile sensing20.Risk-Aware Railway Obstacle Detection via Track Segmentation and Lateral Distance Estimation
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