Drones as Cyber-Physical Systems

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Comparative Evaluation for Tracking the Capability of Solar Cell Malfunction Caused by Soil Debris between UAV Video versus Photo-Mosaic

“…Therefore, the video-mosaic has approximately 2.5-3.4 times more matched key-points per solar module than the photo-mosaic (Figure 3). Since autopilot takes pictures over a large area at a higher altitude, only three still photos can be used to generate the mosaic on the investigated solar panel [47]. Contrary, 24 video frames acquired on the solar panel can guarantee more matched key-points due to the constant and consecutive overlap.…”

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fused Twins: A Review of Access to Digital Twins In Situ in Smart Cities

“…A priori, CPSs have no predetermined (physical) scope and are an idealised form to describe possible interactions with entities [45,235]. Therefore, the CPS literature is rarely linked directly to DTs, remote sensing, or the IoT (but see [236,237]). CPSs are increasingly used to capture social data as well [238].…”

Comparative Evaluation of Mapping Accuracy between UAV Video versus Photo Mosaic for the Scattered Urban Photovoltaic Panel

“…We used the standard autopilot firmware, DJI OSDK (onboard software development kit) V3.8.1, embedded in the flight controller (NVIDIA Jetson TX2 and Intel Core i7-8550U) [15] and as commercial mission planning software (app for short). DJI OSDK V3.8.1 provides real-time data for all the electronics equipped in the UAV (Table 2) [16,17]. The commercial mission planning package, DroneDeploy, has a function operating the classical flight planning applied in large-format aerial photography.…”