Path planning techniques for unmanned aerial vehicles: A review, solutions, and challenges

S Aggarwal, N Kumar - Computer communications, 2020 - Elsevier
Path planning is one of the most important problems to be explored in unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) for finding an optimal path between source and destination. Although, in …

A survey of hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles

AS Saeed, AB Younes, C Cai, G Cai - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
This article presents a comprehensive overview on the recent advances of miniature hybrid
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). For now, two conventional types, ie, fixed-wing UAV and …

FC-RRT*: An improved path planning algorithm for UAV in 3D complex environment

Y Guo, X Liu, X Liu, Y Yang, W Zhang - ISPRS International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In complex environments, path planning is the key for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to
perform military missions autonomously. This paper proposes a novel algorithm called flight …

A Survey of 3D Space Path-Planning Methods and Algorithms

H Mazaheri, S Goli, A Nourollah - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Due to their agility, cost-effectiveness, and high maneuverability, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAVs) have attracted considerable attention from researchers and investors alike. Path …

Path Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle via Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning With Enhanced Exploration

Z Wang, W Gao, G Li, Z Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in urban search and rescue, where path
planning plays a critical role. This paper proposes an approach using off-policy …

Real-time motion planning of curvature continuous trajectories for urban UAV operations in wind

J Patrikar, V Dugar, V Arcot… - … on Unmanned Aircraft …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A key challenge in enabling autonomous Un-manned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to operate in
cluttered urban environments is to plan collision-free, smooth, dynamically feasible …

Path Planning Methods for UAVs: A Survey

X Chen, J Tang, Y Ruan, J Zhan - … of the 3rd International Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
After years of development, low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a pyramidally
important role in applications of miscellaneous fields by virtues of their excellent mobility and …

Dodging Like A Bird: An Inverted Dive Maneuver Taking by Lifting-Wing Multicopters

W Gao, S Wang, Q Quan - 2023 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is crucial for hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles, such as lifting-wing multicopters, to plan a
continuous, smooth, and collision-free trajectory to avoid obstacles. Unlike quad-copters …

UAV Path Planning: Challenges, Strategies, and Future Directions

A Vashisth, B Singh, RS Batth - New Innovations in AI, Aviation, and …, 2024 - igi-global.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have grown in popularity
and utility in a variety of applications, including surveillance, agriculture, disaster …

[PDF][PDF] Wind-Field Estimation and Curvature Continuous Path Planning for Low Altitude Urban Aerial Mobility

J Patrikar - 2020 - academia.edu
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in dense urban areas need the ability
to generate wind-aware collision-free, smooth, dynamically feasible trajectories between two …