UAV assistance paradigm: State-of-the-art in applications and challenges

B Alzahrani, OS Oubbati, A Barnawi… - Journal of Network and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an emerging technology with the potential to
be used in industries and various sectors of human life to provide a wide range of …

Unmanned aerial vehicles/drones in vehicle routing problems: a literature review

D Rojas Viloria, EL Solano‐Charris… - International …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
During recent years, advances in drone technologies have made them applicable in various
fields of industry, and their popularity continues to grow. In this paper, the academic …

Metaheuristic optimization-based path planning and tracking of quadcopter for payload hold-release mission

E Belge, A Altan, R Hacıoğlu - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Under harsh geographical conditions where manned flight is not possible, the ability of the
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to successfully carry out the payload hold–release mission …

[HTML][HTML] UAV in the advent of the twenties: Where we stand and what is next

F Nex, C Armenakis, M Cramer, DA Cucci… - ISPRS journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has surged in the last two decades,
making them popular instruments for a wide range of applications, and leading to a …

A survey on the application of path-planning algorithms for multi-rotor UAVs in precision agriculture

A Basiri, V Mariani, G Silano, M Aatif… - The Journal of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), although originally designed and developed
for defence and military purposes, in the last ten years have gained momentum, especially …

Cooperative path planning of UAVs & UGVs for a persistent surveillance task in urban environments

Y Wu, S Wu, X Hu - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There have been many applications of drones in urban environments, such as delivery,
rescue, and surveillance. In a persistent surveillance task, the drones sometimes cannot …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic differential annealed optimization: New metaheuristic optimization algorithm for engineering applications

HN Ghafil, K Jármai - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
This work proposes a novel optimization algorithm which can be used to solve a wide range
of mathematical optimization problems where the global minimum or maximum is required …

A review of recent advances in coordination between unmanned aerial and ground vehicles

Y Ding, B **n, J Chen - Unmanned Systems, 2021 - World Scientific
Coordination between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles
(UGVs) has received increasing attention in recent years. The list of successful applications …

Multi-UAV navigation for partially observable communication coverage by graph reinforcement learning

Z Ye, K Wang, Y Chen, X Jiang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we aim to design a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based control solution
to navigating a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fly around an unexplored …

Multi-robot task allocation problem with multiple nonlinear criteria using branch and bound and genetic algorithms

JG Martin, JRD Frejo, RA García… - Intelligent Service Robotics, 2021 - Springer
The paper proposes the formulation of a single-task robot (ST), single-robot task (SR), time-
extended assignment (TA), multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) problem with multiple …