OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Drones is 56. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Research on Modeling and Fault-Tolerant Control of Distributed Electric Propulsion Aircraft	665
A Computational Model for Simulating the Performance of UAS-Based Construction Safety Inspection through a System Approach	332
Go with the Flow: Estimating Wind Using Uncrewed Aircraft	270
An Evaluation of Sun-Glint Correction Methods for UAV-Derived Secchi Depth Estimations in Inland Water Bodies	219
OTFS-IM Modulation Based on Four-Dimensional Spherical Code in Air-to-Ground Communication	206
Modulation Recognition of Low-SNR UAV Radar Signals Based on Bispectral Slices and GA-BP Neural Network	203
A Dynamic Checkpoint Interval Decision Algorithm for Live Migration-Based Drone-Recovery System	161
Individualized Indicators and Estimation Methods for Tiger Nut (Cyperus esculentus L.) Tubers Yield Using Light Multispectral UAV and Lightweight CNN Structure	153
On IRS-Assisted Covert Communication with a Friendly UAV	118
Cooperative Drone and Water Supply Truck Scheduling for Wildfire Fighting Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	117
Joint Deployment and Coverage Path Planning for Capsule Airports with Multiple Drones	117
Drone State Estimation Based on Frame-to-Frame Template Matching with Optimal Windows	115
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	115
A Capacity-Constrained Weighted Clustering Algorithm for UAV Self-Organizing Networks Under Interference	112
A Hierarchical Control Algorithm for a Pursuit–Evasion Game Based on Fuzzy Actor–Critic Learning and Model Predictive Control	112
Special Issue on Intelligent Image Processing and Sensing for Drones	107
Speed-First: An Aggressive Gradient-Based Local Planner for Quadrotor Faster Flight	106
Fault Tolerant Control of Drone Interceptors Using Command Filtered Backstepping and Fault Weighting Dynamic Control Allocation	103
Joint Design of Altitude and Channel Statistics Based Energy Beamforming for UAV-Enabled Wireless Energy Transfer	100
Improving Racing Drones Flight Analysis: A Data-Driven Approach Using Motion Capture Systems	100
Strapdown Celestial Attitude Estimation from Long Exposure Images for UAV Navigation	96
Interception of a Single Intruding Unmanned Aerial Vehicle by Multiple Missiles Using the Novel EA-MADDPG Training Algorithm	95
Enhancing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Task Assignment with the Adaptive Sampling-Based Task Rationality Review Algorithm	90
Robust Nonlinear Control with Estimation of Disturbances and Parameter Uncertainties for UAVs and Integrated Brushless DC Motors	90
Research on Cooperative Obstacle Avoidance Decision Making of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms in Complex Environments under End-Edge-Cloud Collaboration Model	88

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	87
A Systems Analysis of Energy Usage and Effectiveness of a Counter-Unmanned Aerial System Using a Cyber-Attack Approach	86
Two Low-Complexity Efficient Beamformers for an IRS- and UAV-Aided Directional Modulation Network	85
Consensus-Based Formation Control for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems in Complex Environments	80
G-YOLO: A Lightweight Infrared Aerial Remote Sensing Target Detection Model for UAVs Based on YOLOv8	76
Drone with Mounted Thermal Infrared Cameras for Monitoring Terrestrial Mammals	76
A Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Throughput Maximization in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Unmanned Aerial Vehicle–Integrated Sensing and Communication Network	74
Development of a Closed-Loop PLM Application for Vibration-Based Structural Health Monitoring of UAVs	72
Dynamic Estimation of Formation Wake Flow Fields Based on On-Board Sensing	71
Multi-Node Joint Jamming Scheme for Secure UAV-Aided NOMA-CDRT Systems: Performance Analysis and Optimization	70
AoI-Minimal Task Assignment and Trajectory Optimization in Multi-UAV-Assisted Wireless Powered IoT Networks	70
Fuzzy Gain-Scheduling Based Fault Tolerant Visual Servo Control of Quadrotors	70
Automated Pavement Construction Inspection Using Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS)—Hot Mixed Asphalt (HMA) Temperature Segregation	69
Lightweight Obstacle Avoidance for Fixed-Wing UAVs Using Entropy-Aware PPO	69
UAV-Aided Wireless Energy Transfer for Sustaining Internet of Everything in 6G	67
Collaborative Vehicle-Mounted Multi-UAV Routing and Scheduling Optimization for Remote Sensing Observations	67
LightMAN: A Lightweight Microchained Fabric for Assurance- and Resilience-Oriented Urban Air Mobility Networks	66
Tiny-Object Detection Based on Optimized YOLO-CSQ for Accurate Drone Detection in Wildfire Scenarios	65
EUAVDet: An Efficient and Lightweight Object Detector for UAV Aerial Images with an Edge-Based Computing Platform	65
Integral Backstepping Sliding Mode Control for Unmanned Autonomous Helicopters Based on Neural Networks	65
Pasture Productivity Assessment under Mob Grazing and Fertility Management Using Satellite and UAS Imagery	64
Chattering Reduction of Sliding Mode Control for Quadrotor UAVs Based on Reinforcement Learning	63
Monitoring Maize Leaf Spot Disease Using Multi-Source UAV Imagery	63
Multi-Conflict-Based Optimal Algorithm for Multi-UAV Cooperative Path Planning	62
Robust Position Control of VTOL UAVs Using a Linear Quadratic Rate-Varying Integral Tracker: Design and Validation	61
Machine Learning for Precision Agriculture Using Imagery from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey	58
LSTM-H: A Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Accurate Livestock Movement Prediction in UAV-Based Monitoring Systems	58
Drone-Based Monitoring to Remotely Assess a Beach Nourishment Program on Lord Howe Island	58
BCDAIoD: An Efficient Blockchain-Based Cross-Domain Authentication Scheme for Internet of Drones	57
VSAI: A Multi-View Dataset for Vehicle Detection in Complex Scenarios Using Aerial Images	57
Modelling, Design, and Control of a Central Motor Driving Reconfigurable Quadcopter	56
Automated Rice Phenology Stage Mapping Using UAV Images and Deep Learning	56