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

This paper focuses on tracking dynamic targets using a low cost, commercially available
drone. The approach presented utilizes a computationally simple potential field controller …

The past decade has witnessed sustained interest in elucidating the basic theory of
Pythagorean–hodograph (PH) curves, developing construction algorithms, formulating …

MOTION planning is required when designing a feasible tra-jectory for a system that
connects some given initial configuration to a specific final configuration [1]. Because of the …

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 work presents a novel path planner, DE3D-NURBS, for 3D path planning considering
the maximum and minimum climb/dive angle and the maximum curvature imposed by a …

Pythagorean-hodograph (PH) curves offer distinct advantages in planning curvilinear paths
for unmanned or autonomous air, ground, or underwater vehicles. Although several authors …

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

UNMANNED aerial vehicles (UAVs), either multirotor or fixed-wing UAVs, can be used in
many fields to solve complex problems in safety [1], communications [2, 3], military …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), commonly known as drones, have many potential uses in
real world applications. Drones require advanced planning and navigation algorithms to …