USVs have emerged as effective instruments in a wide range of maritime applications,
including environmental monitoring and search-and-rescue missions. The surge in their …

Optimization is a common phenomenon that we encounter in our daily routine, which
involves selecting the best option from a set of alternatives. A lot of algorithms have been …

In modern warfare, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become a vital military force.
Planning feasible paths for UAVs has become an essential part of forming autonomous …

Path planning is a critical part of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) achieving mission
objectives, and the complexity of this problem is further increased when used for a group of …

The use of multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles in search and rescue missions
after natural disasters has become of great interest as they can search large areas and find …

Target search is widely applied in military reconnaissance, geological exploration and
personnel search and rescue. Most target search algorithms perform well in single target …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) searching for a moving target is a complex search
optimization problem that aims to find a path with maximum probability of observing the …

Operations in areas of importance to society are frequently modeled as mixed-integer linear
programming (MILP) problems. While MILP problems suffer from combinatorial complexity …

Increasing disasters in recent years have necessitated the development of emergency
logistics plans. Evacuation planning plays an important role in emergency logistics …

Based on a meta-heuristic secretary bird optimization algorithm (SBOA), this paper develops
a multi-strategy improvement secretary bird optimization algorithm (MISBOA) to further …