Path planning of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in windy environments

HMPC Jayaweera, S Hanoun - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Path planning of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is one of the vital components that
supports their autonomy and deployment ability in real-world applications. Few path …

Communication-aware UAV path planning

A Mardani, M Chiaberge, P Giaccone - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous air drones, known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), often accomplish
missions with real-time video streaming leveraging the available cellular network. Video …

Resilient composition of drone services for delivery

B Shahzaad, A Bouguettaya, S Mistry… - Future Generation …, 2021 - Elsevier
We propose a novel resilient drone service composition framework for delivery in dynamic
weather conditions. We use a skyline approach to select an optimal set of candidate drone …

Allocation using a heterogeneous space Voronoi diagram

X Feng, AT Murray - Journal of Geographical Systems, 2018 - Springer
Spatial allocation is a fundamentally important process reflecting customer behavior,
efficient service assignment, districting, etc., and is at the heart of many spatial analytical …

Model predictive control with wind preview for aircraft forced landing

X Fang, J Jiang, WH Chen - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous emergency landing capability of fixed-wing aircraft is essential for opening
airspace for civil unmanned aviation. This article proposes a goal-oriented control scheme to …

Integrated optimization of unmanned aerial vehicle task allocation and path planning under steady wind

H Luo, Z Liang, M Zhu, X Hu, G Wang - Plos one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Wind has a significant effect on the control of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),
resulting in changes in their ground speed and direction, which has an important influence …

Robust composition of drone delivery services under uncertainty

B Shahzaad, A Bouguettaya… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel robust composition framework for drone delivery services considering
changes in the wind patterns in urban areas. The proposed framework incorporates the …

Drone service response: Spatiotemporal heterogeneity implications

X Feng, AT Murray, RL Church - Journal of Transport Geography, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, often called drones, have rapidly emerged for
commercial and personal use in recent years. Drones are a promising and effective …

Any-time path-planning: Time-varying wind field+ moving obstacles

M Otte, W Silva, E Frew - 2016 IEEE international conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of real-time path-planning in a spatiotemporally varying wind-field
with moving obstacles. We are provided with changing wind and obstacle predictions along …

Emergent hypotrochoidal and epitrochoidal formations in a swarm of agents

G Fedele, L D'Alfonso, A Bono - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a decentralized controller for a swarm of agents that generates
hypotrochoidal and epitrochoidal curves in a 3-D space. The dynamics of the agents is …