A comprehensive review of unmanned aerial vehicle-based approaches to support photovoltaic plant diagnosis

Comprehensive Investigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): An In-Depth Analysis of Avionics Systems

“…In other terms, there exist no reviews about the drones themselves, involving different architectures, structures, avionics, and software-to-hardware branches (i.e., the results of algorithms over the behavioral mechanism of sensors). Forwardly, as a matter of proof, and despite the extended application fields for UAVs such as concentrating solar thermal system planning and operation [64], intrusion detection [65], forest ecology [66], forensic civil engineering [67], plant-scale growth estimation [68], and photovoltaic plant diagnosis and maintenance [69,70], the available related reviews provide a less detailed informative background about the realm of UAVs. To address this issue, this paper aims to critically review and assess the different UAV facets, decomposed into five major sets including flight control and navigation, communication and remote control, computing and data management, sensing and monitoring, and power and energy management.…”