Optimization approaches for civil applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or aerial drones: A survey

A Otto, N Agatz, J Campbell, B Golden, E Pesch - Networks, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or aerial drones, are an emerging technology with
significant market potential. UAVs may lead to substantial cost savings in, for instance …

A survey on position-based routing protocols for Flying Ad hoc Networks (FANETs)

OS Oubbati, A Lakas, F Zhou, M Güneş… - Vehicular …, 2017 - Elsevier
The last decade has seen a growing interest in the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
for various applications and services. UAVs, or drones as referred to, have shown to be …

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 multi-objective green UAV routing problem

BN Coelho, VN Coelho, IM Coelho, LS Ochi… - Computers & Operations …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper introduces an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) heterogeneous fleet routing
problem, dealing with vehicles limited autonomy by considering multiple charging stations …

UAV mission planning resistant to weather uncertainty

A Thibbotuwawa, G Bocewicz, G Radzki, P Nielsen… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Fleet mission planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is the process of creating flight
plans for a specific set of objectives and typically over a time period. Due to the increasing …

Optimal routing, loading and aborting of UAVs executing both visiting tasks and transportation tasks

X Zhu, R Yan, R Peng, Z Zhang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates some cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) executing both
visiting tasks and transportation tasks. The UAVs are subject to random shocks which may …

A communitarian microgrid storage planning system inside the scope of a smart city

VN Coelho, IM Coelho, BN Coelho, GC de Oliveira… - Applied Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper (a substantial extension of the short version presented at REM2016 on April 19–
21, Maldives [1]), multi-objective power dispatching is discussed in the scope of microgrids …

Evolution-algorithm-based unmanned aerial vehicles path planning in complex environment

X Liu, X Du, X Zhang, Q Zhu, M Guizani - Computers & Electrical …, 2019 - Elsevier
With the wide application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in production and life, more
and more attention has been paid to the autonomous track planning of UAVs. When UAV …

[PDF][PDF] UAVs flight routes optimization in changing weather conditions–constraint programming approach

G Radzki, A Thibbotuwawa… - Applied Computer …, 2019 - bibliotekanauki.pl
The problem of delivering goods in a distribution network is considered in which a fleet of
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) carries out transport operations. The changing weather …

Optimization of mobile sensor coverage with UAVs

C Caillouet, F Giroire… - IEEE INFOCOM 2018 …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we address the optimization problem of covering a set of mobile sensors with a
fleet of flying devices. The goal is to deploy a connected set of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles …