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 …

Addressing disasters in smart cities through UAVs path planning and 5G communications: A systematic review

Z Qadir, F Ullah, HS Munawar, F Al-Turjman - Computer Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
UAVs are increasingly incorporated in a wide range of domains such as disaster
management and rescue missions. UAV path planning deals with finding the most optimal or …

Survey on coverage path planning with unmanned aerial vehicles

TM Cabreira, LB Brisolara, FJ Paulo R - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
Coverage path planning consists of finding the route which covers every point of a certain
area of interest. In recent times, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been employed in …

Energy-efficient UAV control for effective and fair communication coverage: A deep reinforcement learning approach

CH Liu, Z Chen, J Tang, J Xu… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used to serve as aerial base stations to enhance
both the coverage and performance of communication networks in various scenarios, such …

Distributed energy-efficient multi-UAV navigation for long-term communication coverage by deep reinforcement learning

CH Liu, X Ma, X Gao, J Tang - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we aim to design a fully-distributed control solution to navigate a group of
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as the mobile Base Stations (BSs) to fly around a target …

A survey on coverage path planning for robotics

E Galceran, M Carreras - Robotics and Autonomous systems, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Coverage Path Planning (CPP) is the task of determining a path that passes over all
points of an area or volume of interest while avoiding obstacles. This task is integral to many …

[HTML][HTML] Coverage path planning methods focusing on energy efficient and cooperative strategies for unmanned aerial vehicles

G Fevgas, T Lagkas, V Argyriou, P Sarigiannidis - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The coverage path planning (CPP) algorithms aim to cover the total area of interest with
minimum overlap**. The goal of the CPP algorithms is to minimize the total covering path …

UAV coverage path planning under varying power constraints using deep reinforcement learning

M Theile, H Bayerlein, R Nai, D Gesbert… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coverage path planning (CPP) is the task of designing a trajectory that enables a mobile
agent to travel over every point of an area of interest. We propose a new method to control …

Multi UAV coverage path planning in urban environments

J Muñoz, B López, F Quevedo, CA Monje, S Garrido… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Coverage path planning (CPP) is a field of study which objective is to find a path that covers
every point of a certain area of interest. Recently, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles …

Routing and collision avoidance techniques for unmanned aerial vehicles: Analysis, optimal solutions, and future directions

B Sharma, MS Obaidat, V Sharma… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Routing remains the most important problem to be explored, for discovering an ideal
pathway in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Several problems for identifying and targeting …