The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to carry out remote aerial surveys has become
prominent in recent years. The UAV-based survey faces several operational issues, such as …

Aiming at the problems of strong nonlinearity, strong coupling, and unknown interference
encountered in the flight control process of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a complex …

Path planning is involved in many applications such as trajectory planning, mobile robotics,
pipeline layout, etc. Researchers use artificial intelligence algorithms to solve path planning …

Low-latency data delivery in sparse deployment scenarios is a challenging problem. The
emergence of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted Internet of Things (IoT) provides a …

To solve the problem that the emerging sparrow search algorithm (SSA) lacks systematic
comparison and analysis with other classical algorithms, this paper first introduces the …

A global path planning method constrained by dynamics, kinematics, and terrain is
proposed for Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) …

The advent of electric and flying vehicles (EnFVs) has brought significant advancements to
the transportation industry, offering improved sustainability, reduced congestion, and …

In some specific conditions, UAVs are required to obtain comprehensive information of an
area or to operate in the area in an all-round way. In this case, the coverage path planning …

In recent years, the vigorous rise in computational intelligence has opened up new research
ideas for solving chemical dynamic optimization problems, making the application of swarm …

Investigating the path planning of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) covering
multiple regions, this work proposes an effective heuristic method of region coverage path …