Sensors,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
22(16), P. 6286 - 6286
Published: Aug. 21, 2022
This
study
describes
the
Computing
Platforms
(CPs)
and
hardware
reliability
issues
of
Unmanned
Aerial
Vehicles
(UAVs),
or
drones,
which
recently
attracted
significant
attention
in
mission
safety-critical
applications
demanding
a
failure-free
operation.
While
rapid
development
UAV
technologies
was
reviewed
by
survey
reports
focusing
on
architecture,
cost,
energy
efficiency,
communication,
civil
application
aspects,
computing
platforms’
perspective
overlooked.
Moreover,
due
to
rising
complexity
diversity
today’s
CPs,
their
is
becoming
prominent
issue
up-to-date
solutions
tailored
specifics.
The
objective
this
work
address
gap,
aspect.
research
studies
CPs
deployed
for
representative
applications,
specific
fault
failure
modes,
existing
approaches
assessment
enhancement
indicates
how
faults
failures
occur
various
system
layers
UAVs
analyzes
open
challenges.
We
advocate
concept
cross-layer
model
UAVs’
onboard
intelligence
identify
directions
future
area.
Sustainability,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
16(18), P. 8277 - 8277
Published: Sept. 23, 2024
This
review
explores
the
integration
of
Artificial
Intelligence
(AI)
with
Sentinel-2
satellite
data
in
context
precision
agriculture,
specifically
for
crop
yield
estimation.
The
rapid
advancements
remote
sensing
technology,
particularly
through
Sentinel-2’s
high-resolution
multispectral
imagery,
have
transformed
agricultural
monitoring
by
providing
critical
on
plant
health,
soil
moisture,
and
growth
patterns.
By
leveraging
Vegetation
Indices
(VIs)
derived
from
these
images,
AI
algorithms,
including
Machine
Learning
(ML)
Deep
(DL)
models,
can
now
predict
yields
high
accuracy.
paper
reviews
studies
past
five
years
that
utilize
techniques
to
estimate
crops
like
wheat,
maize,
rice,
others.
Various
approaches
are
discussed,
Random
Forests,
Support
Vector
Machines
(SVM),
Convolutional
Neural
Networks
(CNNs),
ensemble
methods,
all
contributing
refined
forecasts.
identifies
a
notable
gap
standardization
methodologies,
researchers
using
different
VIs
similar
crops,
leading
varied
results.
As
such,
this
study
emphasizes
need
comprehensive
comparisons
more
consistent
methodologies
future
research.
work
underscores
significant
role
advancing
offering
valuable
insights
aim
enhance
sustainability
efficiency
management
advanced
predictive
models.
Sensors,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
25(2), P. 479 - 479
Published: Jan. 15, 2025
This
paper
focuses
on
the
modeling,
control,
and
simulation
of
an
over-actuated
hexacopter
tilt-rotor
(HTR).
configuration
implies
that
two
six
actuators
are
independently
tilted
using
servomotors,
which
provide
high
maneuverability
reliability.
approach
is
predicted
to
maintain
zero
pitch
throughout
trajectory
expected
improve
aircraft's
steering
accuracy.
arrangement
particularly
beneficial
for
precision
agriculture
(PA)
applications
where
accurate
monitoring
management
crops
critical.
The
enhanced
allows
precise
navigation
in
complex
vineyard
environments,
enabling
unmanned
aerial
vehicle
(UAV)
perform
tasks
such
as
imaging
crop
health
monitoring.
employed
control
architecture
consists
cascaded
proportional
(P)-proportional,
integral
derivative
(PID)
controllers
successive
loop
closure
(SLC)
method
five
controlled
degrees
freedom
(DoFs).
Simulated
results
Gazebo
demonstrate
HTR
achieves
stability
flight
path,
significantly
improving
practices.
Furthermore,
a
comparison
with
traditional
validates
proposed
approach.
PLoS ONE,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
20(2), P. e0318097 - e0318097
Published: Feb. 13, 2025
Remote
sensing
and
artificial
intelligence
are
pivotal
technologies
of
precision
agriculture
nowadays.
The
efficient
retrieval
large-scale
field
imagery
combined
with
machine
learning
techniques
shows
success
in
various
tasks
like
phenotyping,
weeding,
cropping,
disease
control.
This
work
will
introduce
a
framework
for
automatized
plant-specific
trait
annotation
the
use
case
severity
scoring
CLS
sugar
beet.
With
concepts
DLDL,
special
loss
functions,
tailored
model
architecture,
we
develop
an
Vision
Transformer
based
called
SugarViT.
One
novelty
this
is
combination
remote
data
environmental
parameters
experimental
sites
prediction.
Although
evaluated
on
case,
it
held
as
generic
possible
to
also
be
applicable
image-based
classification
regression
tasks.
our
framework,
even
learn
models
multi-objective
problems,
show
by
pretraining
metadata.
Furthermore,
perform
several
comparison
experiments
state-of-the-art
methods
constitute
modeling
preprocessing
choices.
Sensors,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
22(16), P. 6286 - 6286
Published: Aug. 21, 2022
This
study
describes
the
Computing
Platforms
(CPs)
and
hardware
reliability
issues
of
Unmanned
Aerial
Vehicles
(UAVs),
or
drones,
which
recently
attracted
significant
attention
in
mission
safety-critical
applications
demanding
a
failure-free
operation.
While
rapid
development
UAV
technologies
was
reviewed
by
survey
reports
focusing
on
architecture,
cost,
energy
efficiency,
communication,
civil
application
aspects,
computing
platforms’
perspective
overlooked.
Moreover,
due
to
rising
complexity
diversity
today’s
CPs,
their
is
becoming
prominent
issue
up-to-date
solutions
tailored
specifics.
The
objective
this
work
address
gap,
aspect.
research
studies
CPs
deployed
for
representative
applications,
specific
fault
failure
modes,
existing
approaches
assessment
enhancement
indicates
how
faults
failures
occur
various
system
layers
UAVs
analyzes
open
challenges.
We
advocate
concept
cross-layer
model
UAVs’
onboard
intelligence
identify
directions
future
area.