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 …

In this paper, we focus on path planning of drone teams deployed for search and rescue
missions. The goal of the mission is to detect a target, inform the rescue personnel at the …

This survey paper presents a holistic perspective on the state-of-the-art in the design of
guidance, navigation, and control systems for autonomous multi-rotor small unmanned …

This article investigates the fault-tolerant formation control (FTFC) problem for networked
fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) against faults. To constrain the distributed …

Approaches that aim to maintain the connectivity of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or
drones either utilize cellular networks or propose to jointly optimize connectivity needs with …

This paper aims to present a cooperative and distributed navigation strategy, that is an on-
line path planner, for an autonomous multi-robot system. The robots are intended to …

This paper presents a learning approach to predict air-to-ground communication channel
strength to support the communication-relay mission using the unmanned aerial vehicle …

Drone swarming involves multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are able to
manoeuver autonomously, providing a vast range of surveillance applications such as traffic …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been imperative means for the collection of
information in various fields. Integration of WSN with the latest technology like unmanned …