[HTML][HTML] Designing airspace for urban air mobility: A review of concepts and approaches

A Bauranov, J Rakas - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
The article brings together the academic and industry literature on the design and
management of urban airspace. We analyze the proposed airspace concepts, identify their …

Design challenges of multi-UAV systems in cyber-physical applications: A comprehensive survey and future directions

R Shakeri, MA Al-Garadi, A Badawy… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently rapidly grown to facilitate a wide range of
innovative applications that can fundamentally change the way cyber-physical systems …

UAV path planning using optimization approaches: A survey

A Ait Saadi, A Soukane, Y Meraihi… - … Methods in Engineering, 2022 - Springer
Path planning is one of the most important steps in the navigation and control of Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). It ensures an optimal and collision-free path between two locations …

Optimization of wireless relaying with flexible UAV-borne reflecting surfaces

T Shafique, H Tabassum… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a theoretical framework to analyze the performance of an integrated
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) relaying system in which …

Comprehensive energy consumption model for unmanned aerial vehicles, based on empirical studies of battery performance

HV Abeywickrama, BA Jayawickrama, Y He… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are fast gaining popularity in a wide variety of areas and
are already being used for a range of tasks. Despite their many desirable features, a number …

UAVs as mobile infrastructure: Addressing battery lifetime

B Galkin, J Kibilda, LA DaSilva - IEEE Communications …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
UAVs can play an important role in next generation cellular networks, acting as flying
infrastructure that can serve ground users when regular infrastructure is overloaded or …

Optimization methods applied to motion planning of unmanned aerial vehicles: A review

A Israr, ZA Ali, EH Alkhammash, JJ Jussila - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
A system that can fly off and touches down to execute particular tasks is a flying robot.
Nowadays, these flying robots are capable of flying without human control and make …

Data freshness and energy-efficient UAV navigation optimization: A deep reinforcement learning approach

SF Abedin, MS Munir, NH Tran, Z Han… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we design a navigation policy for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
where mobile base stations (BSs) are deployed to improve the data freshness and …

Concentrated coverage path planning algorithm of UAV formation for aerial photography

Y Cao, X Cheng, J Mu - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the field of aerial photography, UAVs can be used as an ideal carrier of sensors. It is
meaningful to plan its coverage path combined with the sensor model. Previous works …

An overview of drone energy consumption factors and models

P Beigi, MS Rajabi, S Aghakhani - Handbook of smart energy systems, 2022 - Springer
At present, there is a growing demand for drones with diverse capabilities that can be used
in both civilian and military applications, and this topic is receiving increasing attention …