Following the recent advances in drone technologies, various algorithmic optimization
problems related to the effective operation of drones are drawing lots of attentions. This …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely used as mobile information collectors for
sensors to prolong the network time in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to their …

Multi-rotor drones have witnessed a drastic usage increase in several smart city applications
due to their 3D mobility, flexibility, and low cost. Collectively, they can be used to accomplish …

In this paper, we study the employment of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to
monitor Points of Interests (PoIs) in a disaster area, eg, collapsed buildings after an …

Advancements in the design of drones have led to their use in varied environments and
applications such as battle field surveillance. In such scenarios, swarms of drones can …

Motivated by the wide use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in search-and-rescue
operations, we consider a problem of planning the search sequence and search modes of …

In this work, the travel path of a set of drones is scheduled across a graph, where the nodes
need to be visited multiple times at pre-defined points in time. The nodes can either be …

This work examines a UAV-enabled surveillance mission over multiple restricted regions
and aims to determine the optimal UAV trajectory that minimizes the mission completion …

Intersections of flight paths in multidrone missions are indications of a high likelihood of in-
flight drone collisions. This likelihood can be proactively minimized during path planning …

Abstract We consider Internet of Things (IoT) sensors deployed inside an area to be
monitored. Not all the sensors are connected via single-hop to the depot that requires the …