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Information acquisition and rescue operation management can be facilitated by the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with cameras and sensors that are capable of aerial photography and acquire important information from disaster-stricken areas. UAV technology is a relatively low-cost, flexible, and safe solution in missions that are difficult for humans or other systems. UAV usage in pre-and post-disaster assessment, response, and management is an active area of research. There are two important technical aspects of UAV applications in disaster situations. The first is the limited communication range. Information acquired and photography produced by UAVs are only transmitted in real-time to the ground control station (GCS) within its communication range. Remote real-time monitoring of distant areas beyond the UAV's communication range is not possible using a single UAV. It is only possible through communication among several UAVs. The second is the relatively short flight time due to limited battery capacity. UAV replacement is required in order to carry out a persistent monitoring mission. In this paper, we propose a new remote real-time monitoring system of a distant disaster area using multiple UAVs. Wireless communications between multiple UAVs constitutes a UAV network in our proposed system. Moreover, the proposed system replaces the UAVs in-flight with standby UAVs according to the remaining energy levels. We compare the performance of the proposed system with an existing UAV system. Our simulation results show that the proposed system can achieve efficient remote real-time monitoring.

Multi-sensor data fusion has found widespread applications in industrial and research sectors. The purpose of real time multi-sensor data fusion is to dynamically estimate an improved system model from a set of different data sources, i.e., sensors. This paper presented a systematic and unified real time sensor validation and fusion framework (RTSVFF) based on distributed autonomous sensors. The RTSVFF is an open architecture which consists of four layers - the transaction layer, the process fusion layer, the control layer, and the planning layer. This paradigm facilitates distribution of intelligence to the sensor level and sharing of information among sensors, controllers, and other devices in the system. The openness of the architecture also provides a platform to test different sensor validation and fusion algorithms and thus facilitates the selection of near optimal algorithms for specific sensor fusion application. In the version of the model presented in this paper, confidence weighted averaging is employed to address the dynamic system state issue noted above. The state is computed using an adaptive estimator and dynamic validation curve for numeric data fusion and a robust diagnostic map for decision level qualitative fusion. The framework is then applied to automatic monitoring of a gas-turbine engine, including a performance comparison of the proposed real-time sensor fusion algorithms and a traditional numerical weighted average.

The interconnection of all things and industrial integration is the current trend of the times. Among them, the interconnection of all things is the demand of informationization of the times, and the industrial integration is the demand of industrial development. The interconnection of all things is realized based on wireless communication technology. It is necessary to combine the development of the tourist area and the surrounding culture. The relationship between tourist attractions and culture needs to be fully and effectively developed. In order to fully explore the advantages of the cooperation between the two, it is necessary to combine modern technology to package the tour process of each characteristic culture of the scenic spot. Virtual reality is a modern technology that can combine culture and tourism. Wireless communication and VR technology are applied to the development of integration of culture and tourism. The process of tourism will promote profound changes in the tourism model. Under the demand for informatization in various industries, the tourism industry is gradually developing in this direction. The integration of culture and tourism will also be driven by informatization and technology. This paper analyzes the current situation of culture and tourism, summarizes the problems existing in the current process of integration of culture and tourism, and finally puts forward targeted solutions. Mainly in the process of the integration and development of tourism and cultural industries, the traditional culture and scenic spots are the basic factors, combined with wireless communication and virtual reality technology, to develop a tourism industry with technological characteristics of the new era.

- An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft that operates without a human pilot onboard and is controlled either remotely or autonomously. UAVs serve various applications, from defence to civilian purposes, and are categorized into fixed-wing, rotary-wing, hybrid, nano, tactical, target, and commercial drones. For this project, we selected a quadcopter due to its versatility, stability, and efficiency, making it ideal for applications like surveillance, aerial photography, emergency response, and environmental monitoring. The prototype is modeled in Fusion 360 for precise design and analyzed using ANSYS to assess structural integrity and durability under varying load conditions. The UAV frame is fabricated using lightweight materials such as carbon fiber and integrates key components like brushless DC motors, LiPo batteries, GPS modules, and a Pixhawk flight controller. Advanced features such as real-time data acquisition, autonomous flight capabilities, and efficient payload handling enhance its functionality. Additionally, 3D printing is used for custom parts, ensuring an optimized weight-to-strength ratio. To validate performance, the UAV undergoes simulation of flight dynamics and control systems using SolidWorks, followed by extensive ground and flight testing. The results demonstrate reliable performance in real-world scenarios such as medical supply delivery, environmental condition monitoring, and disaster relief efforts. By leveraging artificial intelligence, real-time data processing, and robust communication networks, this project contributes to the advancement of UAV technology, providing a cost-effective, efficient, and sustainable solution for public services and community needs. Key Words: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Quadcopter, Prototype Development, Structural Integrity, Environmental Monitoring.

The development of technology, such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, has significantly advanced many fields of study. Animal research is no exception, as these technologies have enabled data collection through various sensing devices. Advanced computer systems equipped with artificial intelligence capabilities can process these data, allowing researchers to identify significant behaviors related to the detection of illnesses, discerning the emotional state of the animals, and even recognizing individual animal identities. This review includes articles in the English language published between 2011 and 2022. A total of 263 articles were retrieved, and after applying inclusion criteria, only 23 were deemed eligible for analysis. Sensor fusion algorithms were categorized into three levels: Raw or low (26%), Feature or medium (39%), and Decision or high (34%). Most articles focused on posture and activity detection, and the target species were primarily cows (32%) and horses (12%) in the three levels of fusion. The accelerometer was present at all levels. The findings indicate that the study of sensor fusion applied to animals is still in its early stages and has yet to be fully explored. There is an opportunity to research the use of sensor fusion for combining movement data with biometric sensors to develop animal welfare applications. Overall, the integration of sensor fusion and machine learning algorithms can provide a more in-depth understanding of animal behavior and contribute to better animal welfare, production efficiency, and conservation efforts.

The wireless optical communication is a kind of broadband access technology, it can be said that it properly combined with the optical fiber and wireless communication technology. More to say, it is a powerful supplement of modern optical fiber communication. In this paper, based on the advantages of wireless optical communication technology, this paper introduces the wireless optical communication technology in the application of 2G network, 3G network and extends the application in backbone network, and analyzes the common problems and solutions in the wireless optical communication. With the advance of technology, the wireless optical communications technology development prospects will be more and more broad, is worthy of popularization and application.

Wireless communication is an essential technology to unlock the full potential of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in numerous applications and has thus received unprecedented attention recently. Although technologies such as direct link, WiFi, and satellite communications are still useful in some remote scenarios where cellular services are unavailable, it is believed that exploiting the thriving 5G and beyond cellular networks to support UAV communications is the most promising and cost-effective approach, especially when the number of UAVs grows dramatically. On the one hand, to guarantee safe and efficient flight operations of multiple UAVs, it is of paramount importance to provide secure and ultra-reliable communication links between the UAVs and their ground pilots or control stations for conveying command and control signals, especially in beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) scenarios. On the other hand, because of advances in communication equipment miniaturization as well as UAV manufacturing, mounting compact and lightweight base stations (BSs) or relays on UAVs becomes increasingly feasible. This has led to two promising research paradigms for UAV communications, namely, UAV-assisted cellular communications and cellular-connected UAVs, where UAVs are integrated into cellular networks as aerial communication platforms and aerial users, respectively. As such, integrating UAVs into cellular networks is believed to be a win-win technology for both UAV-related industries and cellular network operators, which not only creates plenty of new business opportunities but also benefits the communication performance of 3-D wireless networks. In addition, UAV related sensing and computing are also helpful for achieving efficient and reliable communication (e.g., in avoiding coverage holes) as well as smart UAV coordination, positioning, and trajectory design. However, 5G and beyond wireless networks with UAVs significantly differs from traditional communication systems, because of the high altitude and high maneuverability of UAVs, the unique UAV-ground channels, the diversified quality of service (QoS) requirements for downlink command and control (C&C) and uplink mission-related data transmission, the stringent constraints imposed by the size, weight, and power (SWAP) limitations of UAVs, as well as the new design degrees of freedom enabled by joint UAV mobility control and communication resource allocation.

This paper presents a distributed force/torque-based UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) collision avoidance scheme. This scheme is designed to deal in a distributed way with the problem of collisions among rotor craft UAVs, that are sharing the space and flying to different destinations. The proposed scheme has a modular architecture, so that it can be easily included into UAVs with a waypoint controller, GPS and communication module. The scheme is though to be simple, in order to make it scalable. It uses a combination of force and torque models for avoiding collisions, while keeping a minimum safety distance. The force model helps to keep a minimum distance among UAVs. The torque model is intended for creating virtual roundabouts, when two or more UAVs simultaneously want to fly over an intersection point. The functionality of the proposed scheme is tested by simulation. The evaluation parameters are overall mission time and the minimum distance keeping to others UAVs while avoiding collision. Scalability, the impact of different maximum speeds and the impact of different values of the parameter “avoidance coefficient” are analyzed. We show that the proposed scheme avoids collisions by the emergence of virtual roundabouts. The roundabout size is self-adaptable according to the number of UAVs. Regarding to the minimum distance among UAVs, we show that the scheme behaves similarly when the number of UAVs increases. However, the mission time increases when more UAVs are involved.

Today, the main tool of effective management at both the local, regional, and state levels is the availability of appropriate information support. This especially applies to the security and defense sector, where the availability of the necessary information support is the main requirement for the effective response of departmental bodies (relevant law enforcement agencies) to crisis situations arising both in society and the state as a whole. In connection with this, the role of video information support as a means for prompt decision-making is significantly increased. This is due to the fact that the key principles of the implementation of video information provision are timeliness (operational) and reliability. For this purpose, stationary and mobile photo and video surveillance systems are quite actively used. The use of the latter is closely related to the aviation segment — unmanned aerial vehicles and complexes, the role of which is increased by the presence of such properties as scale and mobility. However, at the same time, the following problematic factors arise related to the use of wireless communication technologies for data delivery to the final addressee: an imbalance between the ever-increasing volumes of data and the bandwidth of data transmission channels; the influence of obstacles arising in the process of video data delivery on the level of reliability of the reconstructed video image. It should be noted that the use of existing methods of interference-resistant coding to solve the above-mentioned problems leads to a significant increase in the volume of video data, which is critical in the conditions of using wireless communication technologies — video is an information resource transmitted with significant time delays. For this purpose, a method of video data reconstruction is being developed based on the use of identifiers (markers) of uneven code structures assigned to the elements of clusters formed as a result of the restructuring of the information space by structural feature. A distinctive feature of the developed method is the independent decompositional statistical decoding of individual code subsets according to structural features. This ensures, due to the use of additional service information, the localization of errors in the process of data reconstruction of the video information resource. A distinctive feature of the developed method is the independent decompositional statistical decoding of individual code subsets according to structural features. This ensures, due to the use of additional service information, the localization of errors in the process of data reconstruction of the video information resource. A distinctive feature of the developed method is the independent decompositional statistical decoding of individual code subsets according to structural features. This ensures, due to the use of additional service information, the localization of errors in the process of data reconstruction of the video information resource.

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an airborne system or pilotless aircraft which is remotely controlled by a human operator on ground or by an onboard computer such that the vehicle moves autonomously. The range of applications in which UAVs are used is very large. This paper describes the application of developing an autonomous surveillance system using an UAV to identify a given target and/or objects of interest in the terrain over which it flies. Such a system can be used in rescue operations, especially in remote areas where physical access is difficult. It can also be used for military operations, farming or any field where surveillance of a given land area is required. The UAV developed in this work is capable of object detection. A mounted camera is used to give visual feedback, and an onboard processing unit runs image recognition software to identify the target in real time. Optimal algorithms are used to search and find the target from the given search area. After recognition of the target, the UAV can either be used to hold its position so as to have a video feed of the target, or return to its base station once the coordinates have been estimated using GPS modules or relay the GPS location to the base station. This paper describes the implementation of the hardware and software components that lead to the realization of the UAV and the application of object detection. The details of a new search algorithm and an example of object detection is presented . The work presented in this paper is the first part in the attempt to develop a cluster of UAVs meant to work in collaboration to be deployed for search and rescue operations.

Future wireless communication networks tend to be intelligentized to accomplish the missions that cannot be preprogrammed. In the new intelligent communication systems, optimizing the network performance has become a challenge due to the ever-increasing complexity of the network environment. New theories and technologies for intelligent wireless communications have obtained widespread attention, among which deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is an excellent machine learning technology. DRL has great potential in enhancing the intelligence of wireless communication systems while overcoming the above challenge. This paper presents a review on applications of DRL in intelligent wireless communications with focuses on millimeter wave (mmWave), intelligent caching and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) scenarios. We first introduce the concepts and basic principles of single/multi-agent DRL techniques. Then, we review the related works where DRL algorithms are used to address emerging issues in wireless communications. These issues include mmWave communication, intelligent caching, UAV aided communication, and handover/access control in HetNets. Finally, critical challenges and future research directions of applying DRL in intelligent wireless communications are outlined.

In recent years, wireless communications on the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) have developed rapidly, in which the airborne antenna array system can be adopted to improve the capacity of the communication systems. However, the application of antenna arrays on the UAV is restricted because they are complex and power-hungry. Since the time modulated array (TMA) is of ability to implement multiple beams with a single RF chain, it has a potential application in wireless communications on the UAV to improve the performance. This manuscript has proposed and verified a novel space division multiple access (SDMA) method based on the TMA, for the uplink of UAV communications. Users in different directions transmit the signals to the UAV with the same carrier frequency, and the TMA on the UAV distinguishes each user’s signal by digital band-pass filters. Numeric simulations are provided to verify the proposed idea, and a simple S-band 8-element TMA is constructed and tested to examine its effectiveness partially.

The fifth generation (5G) wireless systems have been begun to be widely deployed over the world in recent years. As the 5G technology will not be able to meet the demands of the huge data traffic growth from massively interconnected devices that is forecasted for future years, the attention of the research community is shifting toward what will be the next innovations in wireless communication architectures and technologies for beyond 5G. The topic of beyond 5G wireless communication technologies has gained much momentum in the industry and the research community very recently. In this issue of IEEE Wireless Communications, we are pleased to present two Special Issues to bring together researchers, industry practitioners, and individuals working on the related areas to address some of these technical challenges for 5G and beyond wireless communication technologies. The Special Issue on “6G: The Paradigm for Future Wireless Communications” includes a collection of nine articles presented by Guest Editors S. Mumtaz, C. Jiang, A. Tölli, A. Al-Dulaimi, M. Butt, H. M. Asif, and I. Ashraf; the other Special Issue, on “Smart, Optimal, and Explainable Orchestration of Network Slices in 5G and Beyond Networks,” includes a collection of five articles presented by Guest Editors Z. M. Fadlullah, M. M. Fouda, K. Rabie, and R. Li. Thanks to the two Guest Editor teams who did an excellent job in editing these two Special Issues for our readers. Please stay tuned for new developments in the research area of beyond 5G wireless communication technologies, and read the editorials and the articles in the Special Issues.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have become more popular for usage due to the low cost of deployment and maintenance. Single UAV employment allows remote area monitoring and transferring different payloads to inaccessible or dangerous zones for human. In order to deal with flight tasks that are more complex, UAV swarms are applied. The main challenge of UAV swarm formation and flight control is to avoid vehicle collisions. In this case, artificial intelligence is responsible for flight performance in the airspace in such way that collision is avoided. The main requirements to the method, which will provide conflict-free maneuvers, are safety (collision avoidance), liveness (decentralized control, destination area reachability) and flyability (UAV flight performance constraints are satisfied). Artificial force field method fulfills all of these demands. It allows to detect a potential conflict between multiple UAVs in a swarm and other static or moving obstacles found in airspace, to provide collision resolution by changing UAVs flight parameters through maintaining minimum separation distance, including cases when manned vehicles are found in the same airspace. There can be distinguished by a wide range of obstacles: static (buildings, restricted areas and bed weather conditions) and dynamic ones (other UAVs, manned aircraft). Method allows keeping UAV swarm shape on the flight path, taking into account ground speed and turn bank angle values restrictions according to UAV’s flight performance characteristics.

Introduction Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered with increasing interest in a diverse set of civil and commercial applications, such as environmental and natural disaster monitoring, border surveillance, emergency assistance, search and rescue missions, delivery of goods, and construction [208, 132, 362, 265, 434, 110, 280, 163]. Use of single or multiple UAVs as communication relays or aerial base stations for network provisioning in emergency situations and for public safety communications has been of particular interest due to UAVs fast deployment and large coverage capabilities [331, 193, 206, 429]. The deployed aerial platform size and the number of necessary platforms are key factors in determining the on-board communication system in addition to the coverage and capacity requirements [73]. Small-scale multi-rotors are of particular interest in practice due to their ease of deployment, low acquisition and maintenance costs, high maneuverability, and ability to hover. Research and development of small-scale UAVs focused initially on control issues, such as flight stability, maneuverability, and robustness, followed by designing autonomous vehicles capable of waypoint flights with minimal user intervention. Considering the limited flight time and payload capacity of these vehicles and the area sizes the aforementioned applications might span, the interest is shifting more and more toward collaborative multiple UAV systems for efficient and successful missions. The number of UAVs might be from tens to hundreds traveling over tens of meters to kilometers for different applications (see Figure 3.1 for an illustration). Wireless communication is an essential factor not only for network provisioning with UAVs but also for successful deployment of systems consisting of multiple small-scale UAVs. It is highly likely that high-performance links and connectivity in three-dimensional space will be required for several applications (e.g., monitoring certain areas) with data delivery meeting a certain quality of service demands [35].The question arises as to which wireless technology should be employed for aerial networks that consist of air-to-ground and air-to-air links, and data needs to be delivered regardless of significant height and orientation differences. Taking into account the quality of service to be satisfied over diverse links and the high node mobility, it is not yet clear as to whether networking protocols developed for ground networks are readily deployable on UAV networks.