© 2020 IEEE. In this paper, a control strategy is developed for tracking the propagation of an expanding flood zone by using a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The strategy consists of two stages: a caging stage ...

© 2017 IEEE. A function approximation technique based immersion and invariance (FATII) control method is proposed in this letter. Firstly, an unknown control system is restructured as the combination of an auxiliary system ...

© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Soil nutrient contents and organic carbon (C) stability are key indicators for restoration of degraded grassland. However, the effects of long-term active restoration of extremely degraded ...

Navigation is one of the most critical problems in all areas of mobile robotics, including urban search and rescue robotics. Autonomous navigation tasks appear almost in every robotic project. A preliminary validation on ...

© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Autonomous robots in the Arctic cover a number of strategically important tasks, including climate research, reconnaissance, transportation, material delivery, search and rescue. ...

For a large variety of tasks autonomous robots require a robust visual data processing system. This paper presents a new human detection framework that combines rotation-invariant histogram of oriented gradients (RIHOG) ...