The unmanned aerial vehicle routing and trajectory optimisation problem, a taxonomic review

WP Coutinho, M Battarra, J Fliege - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the past few years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become more and more
popular. The complexity of routing UAVs has not been fully investigated in the literature. In …

A survey on path planning for persistent autonomy of autonomous underwater vehicles

Z Zeng, L Lian, K Sammut, F He, Y Tang, A Lammas - Ocean Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Recently, there has been growing interest in develo** Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
(AUV) to operate for longer mission durations as well as with higher levels of autonomy. This …

Cooperative path planning optimization for multiple UAVs with communication constraints

L Xu, X Cao, W Du, Y Li - Knowledge-based systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Path planning is a complicated optimization problem that is crucial for the safe flight of
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Especially in the scenarios involving multiple UAVs, this …

Coverage path planning with unmanned aerial vehicles for 3D terrain reconstruction

M Torres, DA Pelta, JL Verdegay, JC Torres - Expert systems with …, 2016 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional terrain reconstruction from 2D aerial images is a problem of utmost
importance due its wide level of applications. It is relevant in the context of intelligent …

Ant colony optimization for multi-UAV minimum time search in uncertain domains

S Perez-Carabaza, E Besada-Portas… - Applied Soft …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new approach based on ant colony optimization (ACO) to determine
the trajectories of a fleet of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) looking for a lost target in the …

A multi-objective pigeon-inspired optimization approach to UAV distributed flocking among obstacles

H Qiu, H Duan - Information Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flocking control with obstacle avoidance is a many-objective
optimization problem for centralized algorithms. A UAV flocking distributed optimization …

Evolutionary computation for unmanned aerial vehicle path planning: A survey

Y Jiang, XX Xu, MY Zheng, ZH Zhan - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2024 - Springer
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path planning aims to find the optimal flight path from the
start point to the destination point for each aerial vehicle. With the rapid development of UAV …

An improved constrained differential evolution algorithm for unmanned aerial vehicle global route planning

X Zhang, H Duan - Applied Soft Computing, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper formulates the global route planning problem for the unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) as a constrained optimization problem in the three-dimensional environment and …

Intelligent UAV map generation and discrete path planning for search and rescue operations

V San Juan, M Santos, JM Andújar - Complexity, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Search and Rescue Operations (SAR) take place in any emergency situation where people
are involved and their lives are at risk. These operations are nowadays carried out with the …

Heuristic and genetic algorithm approaches for UAV path planning under critical situation

J Silva Arantes, M Silva Arantes… - … Journal on Artificial …, 2017 - World Scientific
The present paper applies a heuristic and genetic algorithms approaches to the path
planning problem for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), during an emergency landing …