Unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, have many potential uses in real-
world applications. Drones require advanced planning and navigation algorithms to enable …

Small scale quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has attracted much attention in
recent years and has been widely adopted in many civil applications, eg inspection of critical …

This paper presents a path planning method based on Pythagorean Hodograph (PH) curves
and harmony search algorithm for unmanned-aerial-vehicles (UAVs) in complex …

A helical curve, or curve of constant slope, offers a natural flight path for an aerial vehicle
with a limited climb rate to achieve an increase in altitude between prescribed initial and …

This thesis addresses two significative problems regarding autonomous systems, namely
path and trajectory planning. Path planning deals with finding a suitable path from a start to …

Este trabalho apresenta um novo método de otimização aplicado a diferentes classes de
problemas, como não-convexos e convexos. A metodologia consiste na utilização do …