Flying robots for a smarter life

This new technology has evident social and economic impacts on our lifestyle and represents one of the most vital future trends [16]. In this context, Suab et al. have generally explained how different UAVs could be employed in forests and farming [7]. On the other hand, the mobility and flexibility of UAVs as well as their cheap costs represent their most powerful features for developing a new generation of cellular communication flying terminals as in [8][9][10], acquiring images rich of details for executing several geological applications as suggested in [11], or monitoring and tracking wildlife features [12]. Many engineers and researchers look at commercial multicopters as practical devices that could be adapted to perform a wide range of applications, even though they are unable to carry considerable payloads, and their batteries may sustain up to two successive flying hours if their maximal weight, including their payload, is around ten kilos. In such a case, building advanced types of flying robots that satisfy any special requirements regarding their payload or their maximal flying range requires new creative ideas. This paper presents a few novel designs with many technical details including computer vision systems and some modern AI-based algorithms that are required to perform smart missions. The organization of this paper is as follows: first, we present several recently designed and presented platforms for serving in different areas.