Path planning for autonomous drones: Challenges and future directions

G Gugan, A Haque - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, have gained a lot of popularity over the last
decade. The use of autonomous drones appears to be a viable and low-cost solution to …

An obstacle avoidance approach for UAV path planning

N Bashir, S Boudjit, G Dauphin, S Zeadally - Simulation modelling practice …, 2023 - Elsevier
The recent pandemic of COVID-19 has proven to be a test case for Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs). UAVs have shown great potential for plenty of applications in the face of …

Collision-free path planning for UAVs using efficient artificial potential field algorithm

PK Selvam, G Raja, V Rajagopal… - 2021 IEEE 93rd …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), a new emerging form of Internet of Things (IoT), is a
promising technology to be widely used in both civil and military applications. On the fly, the …

Fast collective evasion in self-localized swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles

F Novák, V Walter, P Petráček, T Báča… - Bioinspiration & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A novel approach for achieving fast evasion in self-localized swarms of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) threatened by an intruding moving object is presented in this paper …

Cooperative formation and obstacle avoidance algorithm for multi-uav system in 3d environment

Q Lin, X Wang, YT Wang - 2018 37th Chinese Control …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-UAV cooperative formation has become a hot research issue. Up to now, obstacles
and other UAVs are still the main factors that threaten the flight safety. In this paper, we …

[PDF][PDF] Control of mobile robot formations using A-star algorithm and artificial potential fields

NL Manuel, N İnanç, MY Erten - Journal of Mechatronics …, 2021 - researchgate.net
Formations or groups of robots become essential in cases where a single robot is insufficient
to satisfy a given task. With an increasingly automated world, studies on various topics …

Evolutionary coverage optimization for a self-organizing UAV-based wireless communication system

D Horváth, J Gazda, E Šlapak, T Maksymyuk… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-organized wireless networks based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are receiving
increasing attention due to their flexible deployment opportunities. Typically, UAVs are used …

Formation control of multi-UAV with collision avoidance using artificial potential field

Y Wang, X Sun - … on Intelligent Human-Machine Systems and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To solve the problem of obstacle collision and inner collision during the formation flight, we
propose an artificial potential field (APF) approach and employ it to the formation controller …

A mobility model based on improved artificial potential fields for swarms of UAVs

E Falomir, S Chaumette… - 2018 IEEE/RSJ …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A combination of several autonomous UAVs can be used to perform collaborative tasks.
Such a combination is referred to as a swarm of drones. The use of multiple platforms can …

Dynamic peloton formation configuration algorithm of swarm robots for aerodynamic effects optimization

RAR Bedruz, JMZ Maningo… - … conference on robot …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a flocking and formation algorithm adapted from the flocking behavior of
cycling team or pelotons. Several multi agent applications require efficient positioning of the …