Penentuan Lintasan Pergerakan Quadcopter Berbasis GPS (Global Positioning System) by Abdur Rohman Harits Martawireja, Hadi Supriyanto

“…Terdapat dua tipe UAV, yakni fixed wing dan rotary wing. Quadcopter menjadi salah satu tipe UAV rotary wing yang banyak digunakan dalam berbagai kebutuhan, seperti eksplorasi dan pengambilan citra. …”
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Absolute IOP/EOP Estimation Models without Initial Information of Various Smart City Sensors by Namhoon Kim, Sangho Baek, Gihong Kim

“…However, when using a fixed-wing UAV, the estimated result was not properly produced owing to ground control point placement problems.…”
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Study on the effect of transition process on rotor hovering simulation by PANG Chao, LI Meng, GAO Zhenghong

“…The transition process will evidently affect the results from the RANS-based numerical simulations in some steady cases for the fixed wing aircrafts, which should be taken into consideration in the design process. …”
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Dynamic Simulation and Parameter Analysis of Weaved Composite Material for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Parachute Recovery in Deployment Phase by Wenhui Shi, Shuai Yue, Zhiqian Li, Hao Xu, Zhonghua Du, Guangfa Gao, Guang Zheng, Beibei Zhao

“…Aiming at the parachute recovery of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, a method of parachute deployment by tractor rocket is proposed. …”
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Performance Analysis of the Thermal Automatic Tracking Method Based on the Model of the UAV Dynamic Model in a Thermal and Cubature Kalman Filter by Ke Li, Xiaodan Chen, Haobo Liu, Shaofan Wang, Ke Li, Bo Li

“…Fixed-wing, solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles (SUAVs) can use thermals to expand the duration of flight. …”
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New Reliability Studies of Data-Driven Aircraft Trajectory Prediction by Seyed Mohammad Hashemi, Ruxandra Mihaela Botez, Teodor Lucian Grigorie

“…Two main factors, including regression accuracy and adversarial attack robustness, of six trajectory prediction models are measured in this paper using the traffic flow management system (TFMS) public dataset of fixed-wing aircraft trajectories in a specific route provided by the Federal Aviation Administration. …”
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Wind tunnel tests of hovering propellers in the transition state of Quad-Plane by Katarzyna Pobikrowska, Tomasz Goetzendorf-Grabowski

“…The characteristics of a fixed-wing aircraft and propellers in axial inflow are well documented, less attention is put to non-axial flow cases. …”
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Air Medical Casualty Evacuation in High Altitude: An Experience of 100 Cases in High Altitude and Hilly Terrain of Northern India by Satyen Singh, Dhananjay Singh, Haneesh Thakur, Ajit Bhardwaj, Vikas Chawla Chawla

“…Twenty four patients were transferred by fixed wing aircraft and rest 76 by helicopters. All patient were given sedation in form of injection fentanyl 1mcg/kg in dividing doses and boluses of propofol 10 mg intravenously during transfer. …”
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Performance Analysis of Empennage Configurations on a Surveillance and Monitoring Mission of a VTOL-Plane UAV Using a Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation by Gesang Nugroho, Galih Zuliardiansyah, Azhar Aulia Rasyiddin

“…A Vertical Take-Off and Landing-Plane (VTOL-Plane) is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that combines multirotor and fixed-wing configurations. It has a good cruise range compared to a VTOL vehicle. …”
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Trajectory optimization for maximization of energy efficiency with dynamic cluster and wireless power for UAV‐assisted maritime communication by Xiaoxuan Wang, Hengyuan Jiao, Qinghe Gao, Yue Wu, Tao Jing, Jin Qian

“…Abstract Nowadays, the digital development of marine ranching requires a communication system with wide coverage, high transmission rate and stable communication links. It is known that fixed‐wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have great advantages in long‐range applications. …”
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Investigation on Surface Roughness of PolyJet-Printed Airfoil Geometries for Small UAV Applications by Orhan Gülcan, Kadir Günaydın, Alican Çelik

“…Besides this, CFD analysis revealed that surface roughness caused by printing strategies directly influences the aerodynamic performance of the fixed-wing UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) to considerable degrees. …”
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Large-Scale Oil Palm Trees Detection from High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images Using Deep Learning by Hery Wibowo, Imas Sukaesih Sitanggang, Mushthofa Mushthofa, Hari Agung Adrianto

“…The dataset consists of drone images of an oil palm plantation acquired using a Fixed Wing VTOL drone with a resolution of 5cm/pixel, covering an area of 730 ha labeled with an oil palm class of 56,614 labels. …”
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Cooperative Task Assignment of a Heterogeneous Multi-UAV System Using an Adaptive Genetic Algorithm by Fang Ye, Jie Chen, Yuan Tian, Tao Jiang

“…In this paper, CMTAP is to allocate multiple heterogeneous fixed-wing UAVs to perform a suppression of enemy air defense (SEAD) mission on multiple stationary ground targets. …”
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Research on Aerodynamic Test Validation and the Vector Force Control Method for an E-STOL Fan Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle by Siliang Du, Yi Zha, Qijun Zhao

“…The concept of the Fan Wing, a novel aircraft vector-force-integrated device that combines a power unit with a fixed wing to generate distributed lift and thrust by creating a low-pressure vortex on the wing’s surface, was studied. …”
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Gusts Encountered by Flying Vehicles in Proximity to Buildings by Abdulghani Mohamed, Matthew Marino, Simon Watkins, Justin Jaworski, Anya Jones

“…The analysis showed that fixed-wing aircraft experienced a substantial increase in angle of attack over a relatively short period of time (<1 s) as they fly through the shear layer at a representative forward velocity, which can be well above typical stall angles. …”
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Edge Cooling of a Fuel Cell during Aerial Missions by Ambient Air by Lev Zakhvatkin, Alex Schechter, Eilam Buri, Idit Avrahami

“…Here we describe an edge cooling approach for fixed-wing FC-powered drones by removing FC heat using the ambient air during flight. …”
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Dynamics of Erosion and Deposition in a Partially Restored Valley-Bottom Gully by Alberto Alfonso-Torreño, Álvaro Gómez-Gutiérrez, Susanne Schnabel

“…Topographic changes were estimated using multi-temporal, high-resolution DEMs produced using structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry and aerial images acquired by a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The performance of the restoration activities was satisfactory to control gully erosion. …”
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Minimizing Fuel Consumption for Surveillance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization by Vincent Roberge, Gilles Labonté, Mohammed Tarbouchi

“…The method proposed in this paper included path smoothing techniques in 3D for fixed-wing UAVs based on circular arcs that overfly the waypoints, an essential feature in a surveillance mission. …”
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Drag Reduction by Riblets on a Commercial UAV by Lorenzo Cacciatori, Carlo Brignoli, Benedetto Mele, Federica Gattere, Celeste Monti, Maurizio Quadrio

“…The effect of riblets on a fixed-wing, low-speed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) on the total aerodynamic drag are assessed here for the first time by means of RANS simulations. …”
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DRL-RNP: Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Optimized RNP Flight Procedure Execution by Longtao Zhu, Jinlin Wang, Yi Wang, Yulong Ji, Jinchang Ren

“…By conducting an RNP approach procedure, the DRL algorithm was implemented, using a fixed-wing aircraft to explore a path of minimum fuel consumption with reward under windy conditions in compliance with the RNP safety specifications. …”
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