Solar powered UAV-solar power system : environmental testing for components at sub-zero temperatures by Ong, Zhen Iang.

“…This report serves as a documentation of the author’s work during his final year of study at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), with him taking up the solar unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) project as his final year project. The author is part of the solar energy team, which comprises of two people, the other person being Andy. …”
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Aerodynamic optimization and drag minimization for the ultra low cost UAV piquero aerodynamic by Liu, Hao

“…The Galapagos UAV project aims to develop a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the Piquero, to patrol the Galapagos Islands to protect the wildlife there from illegal hunting activities. …”
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Development of a hybrid 3D virtual-reality UDK-based simulator for UAV applications by Li, Jue Kun.

“…The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an aircraft with no pilot onboard. UAVs can be remote controlled aircraft or can fly autonomously based on pre-programmed flight plans or more complex dynamic automation systems. …”
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Semi-autonomous control of an unmanned aerial vehicle by Goh, Qi Wei

“…Extensive development in the area of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) for multiple applications have been ongoing and one of the most common configuration today is the multi-rotor quadcopter configuration. …”
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Spalling detection via deep transfer network by Wu, Ruida

“…In this project, we will apply technologies related to knowledge transfer to develop a model that does spall recognition on images taken by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with high accuracy. In order to improve the model, we will do transfer learning, data assemble and knowledge distillation to this model so that it is portable as well as robust enough.…”
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Hybrid fuzzy logic active force control for trajectory tracking of a quadrotor system by Abdelmaksoud, Sherif I., Mailah, Musa, Tang, H. Hing

“…The quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system is considered the most widespread machine these days. …”

Informative path planning for anomaly detection in environment exploration and monitoring by Blanchard, Antoine, Sapsis, Themistoklis

“…An unmanned autonomous vehicle (UAV) is sent on a mission to explore and reconstruct an unknown environment from a series of measurements collected by Bayesian optimization. …”
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Hybrid-duplex communications for multi-UAV networks : an outage probability analysis by Tan, Ernest Zheng Hui, Madhukumar, A. S., Sirigina, Rajendra Prasad, Krishna, Anoop Kumar

“…In this letter, the outage probability of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network with hybrid-duplex (HBD) UAV communications is investigated in a stochastic geometry framework. …”
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Performance and flight dynamics characteristics of a variable sweep wing aircraft by Chong, Zi Wei.

“…The variable sweep morphing technology integrated on the newly designed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is investigated in terms of its effects on the performance characteristics, stability as well as the maneuverability. …”
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Real time kinematic satellite navigation of a hexarotor unmanned aerial vehicle by Wang, Tao

“…The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been used commonly nowadays. More and more research institutes and companies spent a lot of money on it. …”
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An experiment study on submersible unmanned aerial vehicle by Tan, Wee Kiat

“…An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can function as an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) below the water surface has increased operations capability. …”
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Self-constructing controller for autonomous vehicle by Muhammad Amirul Afiq

“…The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is one of the marvels of technologies that has constantly evolved for many more applications. …”
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Quantitative evaluation of multi-rotor UAV propulsion system reliability by Goh, Brandon Qi Hao

“…The study investigates the reliability assessment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) propulsion systems using quantitative approaches to predict the failure rates of these crucial components. …”
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3D printing of UAV (II) by Lim, Chin Mian

“…Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has evolved extensively in terms of design and the capability to perform different mission types since World War II. …”
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Short-Term Shoreline Evolution Mapping by using UAV by Siddig, Mohammad lkhmal, Kaamin, Masiri, Daucla, Mohd Effendi, Mokhtar, Mardiha, Sabri, Muhamad Syamil, Ariffinm, Effi Helmy

“…Monitoring and analysing shorelines are crucial because it gives us a better understanding of shoreline changes and identifies beach conditions. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone usage has emerged as a beneficial technology in coastal engineering, notably in the study of shoreline evolutions, because it is more credible and more straightforward to use than the prior technologies. …”
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Machine learning framework for the real-time reconstruction of regional 4D ocean temperature fields from historical reanalysis data and real-time satellite and buoy surface measure... by Champenois, Bianca, Sapsis, Themistoklis

“…An unmanned autonomous vehicle (UAV) is sent on a mission to explore and reconstruct an unknown environment from a series of measurements collected by Bayesian optimization. …”
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Development and control of a mini quad-copter by Tan, Wei Hong.

“…Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been a popular topic for research and development. …”
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Development of solar power systems for solar UAV : evaluation of nomura MPPTs at sub-zero temperatures & solar modules encapsulation by Teo, Boon Rong

“…The author took up the Solar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) project, a 4 year project collaboration with Defense Science Organization(DSO) for his Final Year Project. …”
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Impact of cellular interference on uplink UAV communications by Tan, Ernest Zheng Hui, Madhukumar, A. S., Sirigina, Rajendra Prasad, Krishna, Anoop Kumar

“…The impact of cellular interference on uplink unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications is analyzed in this paper for a multi-UAV network. …”
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Transition optimization for a VTOL tail-sitter UAV by Li, Boyang, Sun, Jingxuan, Zhou, Weifeng, Wen, Chih-Yung, Low, Kin Huat, Chen, Chih-Keng

“…This paper focuses on the transition process opti- mization for a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). For VTOL UAVs that can fly with either hover or cruise mode, transition refers to the intermediate phases between these two modes. …”
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