Semantic Terrain Segmentation in the Navigation Vision of Planetary Rovers—A Systematic Literature Review by Boyu Kuang, Chengzhen Gu, Zeeshan A. Rana, Yifan Zhao, Shuang Sun, Somtochukwu Godfrey Nnabuife

“…Visual semantic segmentation is significant in the localization, perception, and path planning of the rover autonomy. Recent advances in computer vision and artificial intelligence brought about new opportunities. …”
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Organizational Resource Allocation by Mobile Edge Computing in the Context of the Internet of Things by Changming Li, Baojun Yu, Qianfu Su, Hongchen Zhang

“…The motivation of this paper is to optimize the organization’s resource allocation strategy in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment. The optimal path planning and information processing efficiency are improved through Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology and migration optimization algorithm. …”
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Toward the development of smart capabilities for understanding seafloor stretching morphology and biogeographic patterns via DenseNet from high-resolution multibeam bathymetric sur... by Rui Nian, Shasha Liu, Zongcan Lu, Xiaoyu Li, Shidong Ren, Yuqi Qian, Qiuying Li, Guotong He, Kexin Shi, Guoyao Zhang, Lina Zang, Luyao Li, Bo He, Tianhong Yan, Xishuang Li

“…This study demonstrates the premise of using underwater vehicles through unbiased means or pre-programmed path planning to quantify and estimate seafloor categories and the exhibited fine-scale biogeographic patterns.…”
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An Expeditious and Expressive Vehicle Dynamics Model for Applications in Controls and Reinforcement Learning by Huzaifa Unjhawala, Thomas Hansen, Harry Zhang, Stefan Caldraru, Shouvik Chatterjee, Luning Bakke, Jinlong Wu, Radu Serban, Dan Negrut

“…These properties make the model a good candidate for reinforcement learning, model predictive control, model predictive path integral control, path planning, state estimation, and traffic simulation tasks. …”
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An Improved U-Net Network for Sandy Road Extraction from Remote Sensing Imagery by Yunfeng Nie, Kang An, Xingfeng Chen, Limin Zhao, Wantao Liu, Xing Wang, Yihao Yu, Wenyi Luo, Kewei Li, Zhaozhong Zhang

“…The extraction of sandy roads from remote sensing images is important for field ecological patrols and path planning. Extraction studies on sandy roads face limitations because of various factors (e.g., sandy roads may have poor continuity, may be obscured by external objects, and/or have multi-scale and banding characteristics), in addition to the absence of publicly available datasets. …”
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Toward Benchmarking of Long-Term Spatio-Temporal Maps of Pedestrian Flows for Human-Aware Navigation by Tomáš Vintr, Jan Blaha, Martin Rektoris, Jiří Ulrich, Tomáš Rouček, George Broughton, Zhi Yan, Tomáš Krajník

“…This article proposes a methodology for creating high-quality criteria with interpretable results for comparing long-term spatio-temporal representations for human-aware path planning and human-aware navigation scheduling. …”
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The overall design for unmanned transportation system in the mining area by TIAN Chen, DING Zhen, LI Zhenjiang, GAO Yu, AI Yunfeng, CHEN Long

“…It realizes the functions of obstacle perception, intelligent decision-making, path planning, high-precision positioning and precise control. …”
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BDS/IMU Integrated Auto-Navigation System of Orchard Spraying Robot by Liang Zhang, Xinghui Zhu, Jingjing Huang, Jinqi Huang, Jingxin Xie, Xu Xiao, Gang Yin, Xiayu Wang, Ming Li, Kui Fang

“…Combining the kinematics model and the pure pursuit model of the spraying robot, a path-tracking control algorithm is proposed. Path planning was conducted according to the terrain characteristics of orchards. …”
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Fast Simulation of Laser Heating Processes on Thin Metal Plates with FFT Using CPU/GPU Hardware by Daniel Mejia-Parra, Ander Arbelaiz, Oscar Ruiz-Salguero, Juan Lalinde-Pulido, Aitor Moreno, Jorge Posada

“…In flexible manufacturing systems, fast feedback from simulation solutions is required for effective tool path planning and parameter optimization. In the particular sub-domain of laser heating/cutting of thin rectangular plates, current state-of-the-art methods include frequency-domain (spectral) analytic solutions that greatly reduce the required computational time in comparison to industry standard finite element based approaches. …”
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An Unmanned Intelligent Transportation Scheduling System for Open-Pit Mine Vehicles Based on 5G and Big Data by Sai Zhang, Caiwu Lu, Song Jiang, Lu Shan, Neal Naixue Xiong

“…Through an artificial intelligence algorithm, this study realizes intelligent unmanned vehicle path planning and improves the operation efficiency of open-pit mine intelligent transportation systems.…”
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Floor health predictive support for highly automated distribution centers by Stinson, Emily(Emily Anne Matsushino)

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Civilian applications and policy implications of commercial unmanned aerial vehicles by Sprague, Kara Lynn, 1980-

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Human estimation of slope, distance, and height of terrain in simulated lunar conditions by Oravetz, Christopher

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Learning to visually predict terrain properties for planetary rovers by Brooks, Christopher Allen, 1978-

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Designing systems for many possible futures : the RSC-based method for affordable concept selection (RMACS), with multi-era analysis by Schaffner, Michael Andrew

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Automatic Boundary Extraction for Photovoltaic Plants Using the Deep Learning U-Net Model by Andrés Pérez-González, Álvaro Jaramillo-Duque, Juan Bernardo Cano-Quintero

“…The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for inspection and maintenance of PV plants favor a timely diagnosis. UAV path planning algorithm over a PV facility is required to better perform this task. …”
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Enhanced markerless surgical robotic guidance system for keyhole neurosurgery by Siyeop YOON, Sangkyun SHIN, Hyunchul CHO, Youngjun KIM, Laehyun KIM, Deukhee LEE, Gunwoo NOH

“…Thus, we proposed a path-planning algorithm that can support surgical decision-making process for keyhole neurosurgery. …”
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Charging Demand Forecasting Model for Electric Vehicles Based on Online Ride-Hailing Trip Data by Qiang Xing, Zhong Chen, Ziqi Zhang, Xueliang Huang, Zhaoying Leng, Kehui Sun, Yanxi Chen, Haiwei Wang

“…At last, the actual urban traffic network in Nanjing, China was selected as an example to design the path planning experiments and charging demand load experiments in different scenarios. …”
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LoRa Communications as an Enabler for Internet of Drones towards Large-Scale Livestock Monitoring in Rural Farms by Mehran Behjati, Aishah Binti Mohd Noh, Haider A. H. Alobaidy, Muhammad Aidiel Zulkifley, Rosdiadee Nordin, Nor Fadzilah Abdullah

“…Finally, to enhance the efficiency of aerial-based data collection, the UAV path planning was optimized. Measurement results showed that the maximum achievable LoRa coverage when operating on-air via the drone is about 10 km, and the Longley–Rice irregular terrain model provides the most suitable path loss model for the scenario of large-scale farms, and a multi-channel gateway with a spreading factor of 12 provides the most reliable communication link at a high drone speed (up to 95 km/h). …”
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Genetic Algorithm-Based Trajectory Optimization for Digital Twin Robots by Xin Liu, Xin Liu, Du Jiang, Du Jiang, Bo Tao, Bo Tao, Guozhang Jiang, Guozhang Jiang, Guozhang Jiang, Ying Sun, Ying Sun, Jianyi Kong, Jianyi Kong, Jianyi Kong, Xiliang Tong, Guojun Zhao, Guojun Zhao, Baojia Chen

“…The contribution of this work is the use of genetic algorithms for path planning of robots, which enables trajectory optimization of mobile robots by reducing the error in the movement trajectory of physical robots through the interaction of virtual and real data. …”
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