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 …

Addressing disasters in smart cities through UAVs path planning and 5G communications: A systematic review

Z Qadir, F Ullah, HS Munawar, F Al-Turjman - Computer Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
UAVs are increasingly incorporated in a wide range of domains such as disaster
management and rescue missions. UAV path planning deals with finding the most optimal or …

Survey on coverage path planning with unmanned aerial vehicles

TM Cabreira, LB Brisolara, FJ Paulo R - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
Coverage path planning consists of finding the route which covers every point of a certain
area of interest. In recent times, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been employed in …

Comprehensive survey of UAVs communication networks

AI Hentati, LC Fourati - Computer Standards & Interfaces, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, technologies related to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) are growing rapidly
particularly sensors, networking, and processing technologies. Accordingly, governments …

A survey on multi-robot coverage path planning for model reconstruction and mapping

R Almadhoun, T Taha, L Seneviratne, Y Zweiri - SN Applied Sciences, 2019 - Springer
There has been an increasing interest in researching, developing and deploying multi-robot
systems. This has been driven mainly by: the maturity of the practical deployment of a single …

Coverage path planning methods focusing on energy efficient and cooperative strategies for unmanned aerial vehicles

G Fevgas, T Lagkas, V Argyriou, P Sarigiannidis - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The coverage path planning (CPP) algorithms aim to cover the total area of interest with
minimum overlapping. The goal of the CPP algorithms is to minimize the total covering path …

Routing and collision avoidance techniques for unmanned aerial vehicles: Analysis, optimal solutions, and future directions

B Sharma, MS Obaidat, V Sharma… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Routing remains the most important problem to be explored, for discovering an ideal
pathway in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Several problems for identifying and targeting …

A survey of single and multi-UAV aerial manipulation

A Mohiuddin, T Tarek, Y Zweiri, D Gan - Unmanned Systems, 2020 - World Scientific
Aerial manipulation has direct application prospects in environment, construction, forestry,
agriculture, search, and rescue. It can be used to pick and place objects and hence can be …

Simulation tools, environments and frameworks for UAV systems performance analysis

AI Hentati, L Krichen, M Fourati… - 2018 14th International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely deployed in many contexts
(civilian and military). Real experiments using UAVs are costly; therefore, the performances …

UAVs that fly forever: Uninterrupted structural inspection through automatic UAV replacement

M Erdelj, O Saif, E Natalizio, I Fantoni - Ad Hoc Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
The field of structural inspection acquired a new boost with the development of UAVs
(Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). However, the flight time of a UAV is still short compared to the …