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 …

Unmanned aerial vehicle navigation in underground structure inspection: A review

R Zhang, G Hao, K Zhang, Z Li - Geological Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many years after construction, a number of existing old tunnels and underground structures
are deteriorating with time as evidenced by cracks, large deformations, water leakage and …

Communication aware UAV swarm surveillance based on hierarchical architecture

C Xu, K Zhang, Y Jiang, S Niu, T Yang, H Song - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
Multi-agent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) teaming becomes an essential part in science
mission, modern warfare surveillance, and disaster rescuing. This paper proposes a …

Fapp: Fast and adaptive perception and planning for uavs in dynamic cluttered environments

M Lu, X Fan, H Chen, P Lu - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Obstacle avoidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in cluttered environments is
significantly challenging. Existing obstacle avoidance for UAVs either focuses on fully static …

Deep q-learning for two-hop communications of drone base stations

A Fotouhi, M Ding, M Hassan - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we address the application of the flying Drone Base Stations (DBS) in order to
improve the network performance. Given the high degrees of freedom of a DBS, it can …

Benchmarking off-policy deep reinforcement learning algorithms for uav path planning

S Garg, H Masnavi, B Fidan… - 2024 International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a benchmarking of off-policy Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms
for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) path planning. The focus is on assessing the …

Adaptive Depth Graph Neural Network-based Dynamic Task Allocation for UAV-UGVs Under Complex Environments

Z Ma, J **ong, H Gong, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates dynamic task allocation (DTA) for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in complex urban environments using an adaptive …

HVDC transmission line fault identification: a learning based UAV control strategy

WA Khan, S Hamid, MR Usman, A Raza… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electricity Transmission plays an imperative role in smooth provision of power to the
consumers. High voltage direct current (HVDC) system has a lead over high voltage …

VizNav: A Modular Off-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Vision-Based Autonomous UAV Navigation in 3D Dynamic Environments

F AlMahamid, K Grolinger - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide benefits through eco-friendliness, cost-
effectiveness, and reduction of human risk. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is widely …

A control architecture for fixed-wing aircraft based on the convolutional neural networks

Y Seifouripour, H Nobahari - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper develops a nonlinear architecture to control different fixed-wing aircraft. This
architecture has inner and outer loops. The inner loops, designed based on the …