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Drones Detection Using Smart Sensors
<p>Drones are modern and sophisticated technology that have been used in numerous fields. Nowadays, many countries use them in exploration, reconnaissance operations, and espionage in military operations. Drones also have many uses that are not limited to only daily life. For example, drones are …
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Drones και Προστασία Κρίσιμων Θαλάσσιων Υποδομών
… νομικό καθεστώς των μη επανδρωμένων συστημάτων (drones) στο διεθνές δίκαιο, καθώς και το ρυθμιστικό πλαίσιο που διέπει την προστασία των Κρίσιμων Θαλάσσιων Υποδομών. Μέσα από τη διάκριση των drones ως πλοίων, ως πολεμικών πλοίων ή ως εξοπλισμού, αναλύονται τα δικαιώματα και οι υποχρεώσεις που …
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Game of (Delivery) Drones: A Game-Based Approach for Supporting Deliberation on the Use of Drones in Logistics
… investigates stakeholder perceptions of delivery drones, focusing on their societal implications and potential to inform policy development. While drones are anticipated to transform last-mile logistics, public understanding of their operational and regulatory challenges remains limited. Current …
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INVESTIGATING DRONES USING OPEN-SOURCE FORENSIC SOFTWARE
… of unmanned aircraft systems, commonly known as drones, that use commercial-off-the-shelf components because of the potential of exfiltration of sensitive data to foreign nations. Drone sales and usage are growing steadily, but it is difficult to do forensic investigation of drones to determine …
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Architecture and Drones: Accomodating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
… the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), also know as drones. Like the automobile, drone technology will influence not only the way we live but also our design thinking and the components of our built environment. Along with drone's ability to fly, UAV's digital infrastructure is much more flexible and …
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Towards On-Device Detection of Sharks with Drones
… seen several projects across the globe using drones to detect sharks, including several high profile projects around alerting beach authorities to keep people safe. However, so far many of these attempts have used cloud-based machine learning solutions for the detection component, which …
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Occlusion-aware tracking for drones using neural methods
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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An autonomous landing and charging system for drones
… measured in tens of minutes. Charging multiple drones in a network also requires manual assistance. In this thesis, we develop an integrated system with an autonomous charging pad that a drone can accurately land on. At the same time, the charging system allows the drone to land in environments …
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Deploying drones for autonomous detection of pavement distress
… manner. In this work, I explore the capacity of drones to perform autonomous pavement inspections. I develop a system that dispatches drones to survey an area, diagnose the presence of pavement distress in real time, and record imagery and coordinates of locations requiring repair. This system …
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Measuring and optimizing for network conditions on drones
As drones emerge as viable vehicles for mobile computation, a world where we can deploy a fleet of drones to execute tasks, like streaming real-time video, sounds less like sci-fi and more like a quickly-approaching reality. In order to take full advantage of the capability of drones, we must …
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Combat Drones and International Order: An English School Approach
… is to examine the effect of the use of combat drones for the practice of targeted killing on international order. The understanding of these effects is critical for if the use of combat drones for targeted killing undermines critical institutions of international society, which serves as the …
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Lethal Surveillance: Drones and the Geo-History of Modern War
… method, my dissertation, Lethal Surveillance: Drones and the Geo-History of Modern War, examines the history of drone technology from the start of the 20th century to the present in order to understand the significance of the increasing centrality of drones to current American military …
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Elevating the future of urban mobility autonomous passenger drones design
… powered by electricity. Two types of passenger drones were developed based on engineering specification, human factors, aesthetics, and industrial regulations. Multiple VTOL iterations with different interior layouts and structures were explored.
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Vision Based Localization of Drones in a GPS Denied Environment
… pipeline for the localization of multiple drones in a GPS-denied environment. This pipeline would help us with cooperative formation control, autonomous delivery, search and rescue operations etc. To achieve this we integrate a custom trained YOLO (You Only Look Once) object detection …
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Identificação de ativos de linha de transmissão por imagens de drones
Este trabalho busca desenvolver e validar um método automatizado para a identificação e classificação de ativos de linhas de transmissão de energia elétrica, utilizando imagens de alta resolução capturadas por Veículos Aéreos Não Tripulados (VANTs). O objetivo é mitigar os riscos e custos …
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Key-Based Authentication Scheme for eVTOL Drones Using Chebyshev Chaotic Maps
… electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) drones signifies a substantial advancement in urban air mobility, ready to transform transportation models in densely populated regions. These advanced drones, distinguished by their capacity to function in limited spaces and their minimized …
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3D Self-Localization of Drones using a Single Millimeter-Wave Anchor
… MiFly, a self-localization system for autonomous drones that works across indoor and outdoor environments, including low-visibility, dark, and GPS-denied settings. MiFly performs 6DoF self-localization by leveraging a single millimeter-wave (mmWave) anchor in its vicinity- even if that anchor is …
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Oportunidades en el uso de drones para los cultivos del agro colombiano
… presenta alternativa del uso de tecnología (drones) como una oportunidad para fortalecer la agricultura colombiana, generando resultados más eficientes en actividades como la recopilación de información, proceso de riego, monitoreo de los cultivos, y minimización de riesgos. Generando para …
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A framework for adoption of drones in the Dominican Republic construction industry
… the effectiveness of certain technologies, as drones, difficult the cost-benefit of the decision-making process for organisations in developing countries. This cost-benefit decision, involved in the cases of UAS applications, covers the regulatory and practical implications that are barriers in …
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PRIVACY-AWARE AND HARDWARE-BASED ACCLERATION AUTHENTICATION SCHEME FOR INTERNET OF DRONES
<p>Drones are becoming increasingly present into today’s society through many different means such as outdoor sports, surveillance, delivery of goods etc. With such a rapid increase, a means of control and monitoring is needed as the drones become more interconnected and readily available. Thus, …
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