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UAVs & field robotics (KSA)

Drones for rescue, power networks, and fault prediction — in peer-reviewed depth.

The Remote Sensing Chair at NBU houses faculty with deep work on intelligent UAVs, visible-light communication, and radar. Published studies include power-efficient multi-UAV coverage in disasters, SAR with passive source localization, multiaxial blade-fault data for multirotor UAVs, and aerial manipulators with robust control — with explicit NBU project acknowledgements in the literature.

SAR + UAV

SAR and passive source localization (ICT Express)³

Multi-UAV

Power-efficient multi-UAV coverage in disasters (Sensors)²

Data

Blade fault open dataset (Scientific Data; CRP-2025-2484)⁴

Aerial

Aerial manipulation and robust control (Frontiers; CRP-2025-289)⁵

Challenge

Field robots need the same thing regulated software does: evidence, control proofs, and fleet governance — at desert scale.

On Midcore

The partnership pairs Midcore Robotics and Research: simulation and brain pipelines for mission logic, the Outcome Compiler for safety-critical code paths, and Research exports for paper-grade reproducibility.

Outcomes

Public papers already cite NBU-CRP-2025-2484 and NBU-CRP-2025-289; the throughline is the same as enterprise customers — build, measure, publish, repeat.

Selected publications

  1. UAVs-assisted passive source localization for search and rescue — ICT Express, 2021 · doi:10.1016/j.icte.2021.04.001
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405959521000642
  2. Power-Efficient Wireless Coverage Using Minimum Number of UAVs — Sensors (MDPI), 2022 · doi:10.3390/s22010223
    https://doi.org/10.3390/s22010223
  3. Multiaxial vibration data for blade fault diagnosis in multirotor UAVs — Scientific Data (Nature), 2025 · doi:10.1038/s41597-025-05692-4
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05692-4
“Our mandate is the northern border and the real physics of field robots. Midcore is how we connect flights to papers without losing the safety story.”
Remote sensing & EE collaboration — Northern Border University, Arar & Midcore

Quote drafted by Midcore from public partner materials; on file with consent for publication.

Capabilities in play

Robotics platformRobotics brainResearch engine

Sources & citations

  1. NBU — Remote Sensing Chair
  2. Sensors (2022) — Power-Efficient Wireless Coverage Using Minimum Number of UAVs (DOI)
  3. ICT Express (2021) — UAVs-assisted passive source localization for SAR
  4. Scientific Data (2025) — Multiaxial blade fault data (NBU-CRP-2025-2484)
  5. Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2025) — Aerial manipulation (NBU-CRP-2025-289)

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