Unmanned aerial vehicles for search and rescue: A survey

M Lyu, Y Zhao, C Huang, H Huang - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their
flexibility, mobility, and accessibility in various fields, including search and rescue (SAR) …

Machine learning-aided operations and communications of unmanned aerial vehicles: A contemporary survey

H Kurunathan, H Huang, K Li, W Ni… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have provided pervasive, efficient,
and cost-effective solutions for data collection and communications. Their excellent mobility …

Networked unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance and monitoring: A survey

X Li, AV Savkin - Future Internet, 2021 - mdpi.com
As a typical cyber-physical system, networked unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have
received much attention in recent years. Emerging communication technologies and high …

[HTML][HTML] Holistic review of UAV-centric situational awareness: Applications, limitations, and algorithmic challenges

S MahmoudZadeh, A Yazdani, Y Kalantari, B Ciftler… - Robotics, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a comprehensive survey of UAV-centric situational awareness (SA),
delineating its applications, limitations, and underlying algorithmic challenges. It highlights …

Decentralized, privacy-preserving routing of cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles for joint goods delivery and sensing

B Liu, W Ni, RP Liu, YJ Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been extensively applied to goods delivery and in-
situ sensing. It becomes increasingly probable that multiple UAVs are delivering goods and …

A fixed-wing UAV formation algorithm based on vector field guidance

X Wang, S Baldi, X Feng, C Wu, H **e… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vector field method was originally proposed to guide a single fixed-wing Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle (UAV) towards a desired path. In this work, a non-uniform vector field method …

[HTML][HTML] Three-dimension collision-free trajectory planning of UAVs based on ADS-B information in low-altitude urban airspace

D Chao, Y Zhang, JIA Ziye, L Yiyang, L Zhang… - Chinese Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
The environment of low-altitude urban airspace is complex and variable due to numerous
obstacles, non-cooperative aircraft, and birds. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) leveraging …

A hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm based on attention mechanism for UAV autonomous navigation

Z Liu, Y Cao, J Chen, J Li - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being used in many challenging and
diversified applications. Meanwhile, UAV's ability of autonomous navigation and obstacle …

[HTML][HTML] A Review of Constrained Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Mission Planning: Key Techniques and Challenges

G Huang, M Hu, X Yang, X Wang, Y Wang, F Huang - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
UAV mission planning is one of the core problems in the field of UAV applications. Currently,
mission planning needs to simultaneously optimize multiple conflicting objectives and take …

Visual camouflage and online trajectory planning for unmanned aerial vehicle-based disguised video surveillance: Recent advances and a case study

S Hu, X Yuan, W Ni, X Wang… - IEEE Vehicular …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The applications of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled visual monitoring span the
areas of public security, nature resilience, and disaster rescue. Covertness can play an …