OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Drones is 54. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Automated Pavement Construction Inspection Using Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS)—Hot Mixed Asphalt (HMA) Temperature Segregation	617
Lightweight Obstacle Avoidance for Fixed-Wing UAVs Using Entropy-Aware PPO	312
An Integrated Approach for Earth Infrastructure Monitoring Using UAV and ERI: A Systematic Review	238
Robust Position Control of VTOL UAVs Using a Linear Quadratic Rate-Varying Integral Tracker: Design and Validation	199
G-YOLO: A Lightweight Infrared Aerial Remote Sensing Target Detection Model for UAVs Based on YOLOv8	185
Energy-Aware Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Based on the Predictive Energy Consumption Algorithm for Search and Rescue Aerial Robots in Unknown Environments	176
Machine Learning for Precision Agriculture Using Imagery from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey	151
Accuracy Assessment of a UAV Direct Georeferencing Method and Impact of the Configuration of Ground Control Points	140
Drone with Mounted Thermal Infrared Cameras for Monitoring Terrestrial Mammals	114
Path-Following Control of Small Fixed-Wing UAVs under Wind Disturbance	113
UAV-Aided Wireless Energy Transfer for Sustaining Internet of Everything in 6G	112
Two Low-Complexity Efficient Beamformers for an IRS- and UAV-Aided Directional Modulation Network	108
Fuzzy Gain-Scheduling Based Fault Tolerant Visual Servo Control of Quadrotors	106
Wind Tunnel Investigation of the Icing of a Drone Rotor in Forward Flight	105
Deep Complex-Valued Convolutional Neural Network for Drone Recognition Based on RF Fingerprinting	104
Tiny-Object Detection Based on Optimized YOLO-CSQ for Accurate Drone Detection in Wildfire Scenarios	104
A Ground Point Fitting Method for Winter Wheat Height Estimation Using UAV-Based SfM Point Cloud Data	97
Joint Deployment and Coverage Path Planning for Capsule Airports with Multiple Drones	96
Research on Modeling and Fault-Tolerant Control of Distributed Electric Propulsion Aircraft	93
On IRS-Assisted Covert Communication with a Friendly UAV	89
Go with the Flow: Estimating Wind Using Uncrewed Aircraft	87
Drone-Based Monitoring to Remotely Assess a Beach Nourishment Program on Lord Howe Island	87
An Evaluation of Sun-Glint Correction Methods for UAV-Derived Secchi Depth Estimations in Inland Water Bodies	87
Individualized Indicators and Estimation Methods for Tiger Nut (Cyperus esculentus L.) Tubers Yield Using Light Multispectral UAV and Lightweight CNN Structure	86
Modulation Recognition of Low-SNR UAV Radar Signals Based on Bispectral Slices and GA-BP Neural Network	84

OTFS-IM Modulation Based on Four-Dimensional Spherical Code in Air-to-Ground Communication	81
A Computational Model for Simulating the Performance of UAS-Based Construction Safety Inspection through a System Approach	81
Interception of a Single Intruding Unmanned Aerial Vehicle by Multiple Missiles Using the Novel EA-MADDPG Training Algorithm	80
Robust Nonlinear Control with Estimation of Disturbances and Parameter Uncertainties for UAVs and Integrated Brushless DC Motors	79
Multi-Node Joint Jamming Scheme for Secure UAV-Aided NOMA-CDRT Systems: Performance Analysis and Optimization	78
Special Issue on Intelligent Image Processing and Sensing for Drones	72
Path Planning for Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: An Integrated Approach with Theta* and Clothoids	72
Using Ground-Based Passive Reflectors for Improving UAV Landing	71
A Capacity-Constrained Weighted Clustering Algorithm for UAV Self-Organizing Networks Under Interference	70
Cooperative Drone and Water Supply Truck Scheduling for Wildfire Fighting Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	68
A Tunnel Crack Detection Method Based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Equipped with a High-Speed Camera and Crack Recognition Algorithm Using Improved Multi-Scale Retinex and Prewitt–Otsu	66
Drone State Estimation Based on Frame-to-Frame Template Matching with Optimal Windows	66
A Hierarchical Control Algorithm for a Pursuit–Evasion Game Based on Fuzzy Actor–Critic Learning and Model Predictive Control	66
An Efficient and Low-Delay SFC Recovery Method in the Space–Air–Ground Integrated Aviation Information Network with Integrated UAVs	66
Integral Backstepping Sliding Mode Control for Unmanned Autonomous Helicopters Based on Neural Networks	65
Speed-First: An Aggressive Gradient-Based Local Planner for Quadrotor Faster Flight	64
Fault Tolerant Control of Drone Interceptors Using Command Filtered Backstepping and Fault Weighting Dynamic Control Allocation	63
Multi-Conflict-Based Optimal Algorithm for Multi-UAV Cooperative Path Planning	63
Strapdown Celestial Attitude Estimation from Long Exposure Images for UAV Navigation	63
A Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Throughput Maximization in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Unmanned Aerial Vehicle–Integrated Sensing and Communication Network	62
A Dynamic Checkpoint Interval Decision Algorithm for Live Migration-Based Drone-Recovery System	60
Improving Racing Drones Flight Analysis: A Data-Driven Approach Using Motion Capture Systems	60
EUAVDet: An Efficient and Lightweight Object Detector for UAV Aerial Images with an Edge-Based Computing Platform	59
AoI-Minimal Task Assignment and Trajectory Optimization in Multi-UAV-Assisted Wireless Powered IoT Networks	58
Joint Design of Altitude and Channel Statistics Based Energy Beamforming for UAV-Enabled Wireless Energy Transfer	58
LightMAN: A Lightweight Microchained Fabric for Assurance- and Resilience-Oriented Urban Air Mobility Networks	57
Real-Time Monitoring of Parameters and Diagnostics of the Technical Condition of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’s (UAV) Units Based on Deep BiGRU-CNN Models	56
Automated Rice Phenology Stage Mapping Using UAV Images and Deep Learning	55
Autonomous UAV-Based System for Scalable Tactile Paving Inspection	54
Enhancing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Task Assignment with the Adaptive Sampling-Based Task Rationality Review Algorithm	54
Modelling, Design, and Control of a Central Motor Driving Reconfigurable Quadcopter	54