Path-planning for unmanned aerial vehicles with environment complexity considerations: A survey

M Jones, S Djahel, K Welsh - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to make a significant impact in a range
of scenarios where it is too risky or too costly to rely on human labour. Fleets of autonomous …

A survey on UAV-assisted wireless communications: Recent advances and future trends

X Gu, G Zhang - Computer Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to their characteristics of mobility, flexibility and adaptive altitude, unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have immense potential applications in wireless …

A hybrid algorithm based on grey wolf optimizer and differential evolution for UAV path planning

X Yu, N Jiang, X Wang, M Li - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Autonomous navigation is significant to UAVs, especially in disaster scenarios. A Hybrid
GWO and Differential Evolution (HGWODE) algorithm is developed to solve UAV path …

A secure and intelligent data sharing scheme for UAV-assisted disaster rescue

Y Wang, Z Su, Q Xu, R Li, TH Luan… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to establish flexible and reliable
emergency networks in disaster sites when terrestrial communication infrastructures go …

Cooperative path planning optimization for multiple UAVs with communication constraints

L Xu, X Cao, W Du, Y Li - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Path planning is a complicated optimization problem that is crucial for the safe flight of
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Especially in the scenarios involving multiple UAVs, this …

Unmanned aerial vehicles for air pollution monitoring: A survey

NH Motlagh, P Kortoçi, X Su, L Lovén… - IEEE Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with air quality sensors offer a powerful solution
for increasing the spatial and temporal resolution of air quality data, searching and detecting …

A V2I and V2V collaboration framework to support emergency communications in ABS-aided Internet of Vehicles

Y He, D Wang, F Huang, R Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing reliable and flexible emergency communications for the Internet of Vehicles (IoV)
is challenging in post-disaster scenarios, especially when communications infrastructures …

Formation control of unmanned aerial vehicle swarms: A comprehensive review

Q Ouyang, Z Wu, Y Cong, Z Wang - Asian Journal of Control, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The unmanned aerial vehicle formation plays a crucial role in numerous applications, such
as reconnaissance, agricultural plant protection, and electric power inspection. This paper …

Elevating healthcare: Rapid literature review on drone applications for streamlining disaster management and prehospital care in Saudi Arabia

AM Al-Wathinani, MA Alhallaf, M Borowska-Stefańska… - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
Saudi Arabia's health sector faces pressing challenges in disaster and prehospital care
delivery, such as prolonged response times, limited access to remote areas, and strained …

Swarm robotics: A Survey from a Multi-tasking Perspective

E Debie, K Kasmarik, M Garratt - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The behaviour of social insects such as bees and ants has influenced the development of
swarm robots. To enable robots to cooperate together, swarm robotics employs principles …