Solving complex multi-UAV mission planning problems using multi-objective genetic algorithms

C Ramirez-Atencia, G Bello-Orgaz, MD R-Moreno… - Soft Computing, 2017 - Springer
Due to recent booming of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) technologies, these are being used
in many fields involving complex tasks. Some of them involve a high risk to the vehicle …

Weighted strategies to guide a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for multi-UAV mission planning

CR Atencia, J Del Ser, D Camacho - Swarm and evolutionary computation, 2019 - Elsevier
Management and mission planning over a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
remains to date as a challenging research trend in what regards to this particular type of …

DL-DRL: A double-level deep reinforcement learning approach for large-scale task scheduling of multi-UAV

X Mao, G Wu, M Fan, Z Cao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exploiting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to execute tasks is gaining growing popularity
recently. To address the underlying task scheduling problem, conventional exact and …

Enhancing biologically inspired swarm behavior: Metaheuristics to foster the optimization of UAVs coordination in target search

AL Alfeo, MGCA Cimino, G Vaglini - Computers & Operations Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Recent miniaturization in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) technology
encourages the use of many small UAVs for search missions in unknown environments …

A Review on Integrating Autonomy into System of Systems: Challenges and Research Directions

M Torkjazi, AK Raz - IEEE Open Journal of Systems …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies convert conventional
engineered systems into autonomous systems that are capable of performing tasks in their …

Constrained multi-objective optimization for multi-UAV planning

C Ramirez-Atencia, D Camacho - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and …, 2019 - Springer
Over the last decade, developments in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has greatly
increased, and they are being used in many fields including surveillance, crisis …

A knee point based evolutionary multi-objective optimization for mission planning problems

C Ramirez-Atencia, S Mostaghim… - Proceedings of the genetic …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The current boom of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is increasing the number of potential
industrial and research applications. One of the most demanded topics in this area is related …

Task allocation for unmanned aerial vehicles in mobile crowdsensing

S Xu, J Zhang, S Meng, J Xu - Wireless Networks, 2021 - Springer
Mobile crowdsensing is a new paradigm for intelligent mobile devices to collect and share
various types of sensing data in the urban environment. The recent rapid development of …

Multi-UAV path planning using DMGWO ensuring 4D collision avoidance and simultaneous arrival

S Shahid, Z Zhen, U Javaid - Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems have succeeded in gaining the
attention of researchers in diversified fields, especially in the past decade, owing to their …

A game of drones: Game theoretic approaches for multi-robot task allocation in security missions

K Garapati, JJ Roldán, M Garzón, J del Cerro… - ROBOT 2017: Third …, 2018 - Springer
This work explores the potential of game theory to solve the task allocation problem in multi-
robot missions. The problem considers a swarm with dozens of drones that only know their …