Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with visual sensors are widely used for area
mapping, management of crops and traffic, rescuing lives, and many other applications that
need to cover a large area. The process of coverage can be improved with the use of
efficient path planning and data transfer algorithms. Numerous research studies have been
performed by concentrating on each of the aforementioned elements separately. However,
to tackle the rapidly changing environmental situations, this paper proposes a cluster-based …