This paper surveys the state-of-the-art optimization approaches in the civil application of
drone operations (DO) and drone-truck combined operations (DTCO) including construction …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or aerial drones, are an emerging technology with
significant market potential. UAVs may lead to substantial cost savings in, for instance …

Drones are receiving popularity with time due to their advanced mobility. Although they were
initially deployed for military purposes, they now have a wide array of applications in various …

This paper proposes deployment strategies for consumer unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
to maximize the stationary coverage of a target area and to guarantee the continuity of the …

The emergence of delay-sensitive and computationally-intensive mobile applications and
services pose a significant challenge for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) devices due to …

The envisaged usage of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to perform cooperative
tasks is a promising concept for future autonomous military systems. An important aspect to …

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying wireless communication platform have
attracted much attention. Benefiting from the mobility, UAV aerial base stations can be …

This paper proposes a network architecture and supporting optimization framework that
allows Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to perform city-scale video monitoring of a set of …

In recent years, there has been an increased demand in the use of multiple unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) in indoor environments such as material handling task in a …

Today's technology allows people to remotely control and monitor many systems. In these
technological systems, robots or unmanned vehicles are generally used, which are …