Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used extensively for search and rescue
operations, surveillance, disaster monitoring, attacking terrorists, etc. due to their growing
advantages of low-cost, high maneuverability, and easy deployability. This study proposes a
mixed-integer programming model under a multi-objective optimization framework to design
trajectories that enable a set of UAVs to execute surveillance tasks. The first objective
maximizes the cumulative probability of target detection to aim for mission planning success …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used extensively for search and rescue
operations, surveillance, disaster monitoring, attacking terrorists, etc. due to their growing
advantages of low-cost, high maneuverability, and easy deployability. This study proposes a
mixed-integer programming model under a multi-objective optimization framework to design
trajectories that enable a set of UAVs to execute surveillance tasks. The first objective
maximizes the cumulative probability of target detection to aim for mission planning success …