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 …

Applications of artificial intelligence for disaster management

W Sun, P Bocchini, BD Davison - Natural Hazards, 2020 - Springer
Natural hazards have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and significant
socioeconomic loss. The actual damage and loss observed in the recent decades has …

UAV path planning using optimization approaches: A survey

A Ait Saadi, A Soukane, Y Meraihi… - … Methods in Engineering, 2022 - Springer
Path planning is one of the most important steps in the navigation and control of Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). It ensures an optimal and collision-free path between two locations …

A review of artificial intelligence applied to path planning in UAV swarms

A Puente-Castro, D Rivero, A Pazos… - Neural Computing and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Path Planning problems with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are among the
most studied knowledge areas in the related literature. However, few of them have been …

Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle navigation using reinforcement learning: A systematic review

F AlMahamid, K Grolinger - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2022 - Elsevier
There is an increasing demand for using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), known as drones,
in different applications such as packages delivery, traffic monitoring, search and rescue …

Path planning for autonomous drones: Challenges and future directions

G Gugan, A Haque - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, have gained a lot of popularity over the last
decade. The use of autonomous drones appears to be a viable and low-cost solution to …

Solving the optimal path planning of a mobile robot using improved Q-learning

ES Low, P Ong, KC Cheah - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Q-learning, a type of reinforcement learning, has gained increasing popularity in
autonomous mobile robot path planning recently, due to its self-learning ability without …

Survey on computational-intelligence-based UAV path planning

Y Zhao, Z Zheng, Y Liu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
The key objective of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path planning is to produce a flight path
that connects a start state and a goal state while meeting the required constraints …

Towards real-time path planning through deep reinforcement learning for a UAV in dynamic environments

C Yan, X **ang, C Wang - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2020 - Springer
Path planning remains a challenge for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic
environments with potential threats. In this paper, we have proposed a Deep Reinforcement …

[HTML][HTML] Eyes in the sky: Drones applications in the built environment under climate change challenges

N Bayomi, JE Fernandez - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews the diverse applications of drone technologies in the built environment
and their role in climate change research. Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …