Optimization approaches for civil applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or aerial drones: A survey

A Otto, N Agatz, J Campbell, B Golden, E Pesch - Networks, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or aerial drones, are an emerging technology with
significant market potential. UAVs may lead to substantial cost savings in, for instance …

The unmanned aerial vehicle routing and trajectory optimisation problem, a taxonomic review

WP Coutinho, M Battarra, J Fliege - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the past few years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become more and more
popular. The complexity of routing UAVs has not been fully investigated in the literature. In …

Analysis and optimization of unmanned aerial vehicle swarms in logistics: An intelligent delivery platform

K Kuru, D Ansell, W Khan, H Yetgin - Ieee Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deploying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in delivery systems are still in its infancy
with regard to the technology, safety, and aviation rules and regulations. Optimal use of …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-UAV reconnaissance task allocation for heterogeneous targets using an opposition-based genetic algorithm with double-chromosome encoding

W Zhu, LIU Li, L Teng, WEN Yonglu - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) reconnaissance
task allocation model for heterogeneous targets and an effective genetic algorithm to …

A review of cooperative path planning of an unmanned aerial vehicle group

H Zhang, B Xin, L Dou, J Chen, K Hirota - Frontiers of Information …, 2020 - Springer
As a cutting-edge branch of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, the cooperation of a
group of UAVs has attracted increasing attention from both civil and military sectors, due to …

Cooperative path planning with applications to target tracking and obstacle avoidance for multi-UAVs

P Yao, H Wang, Z Su - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach based on the Lyapunov Guidance Vector Field
(LGVF) and the Improved Interfered Fluid Dynamical System (IIFDS), to solve the problems …

Dynamic Adaptive Ant Lion Optimizer applied to route planning for unmanned aerial vehicle

P Yao, H Wang - Soft Computing, 2017 - Springer
This paper proposes a novel Dynamic Adaptive Ant Lion Optimizer (DAALO) for route
planning of unmanned aerial vehicle. Ant Lion Optimizer (ALO) is a new intelligent algorithm …

AoI-minimal task assignment and trajectory optimization in multi-UAV-assisted IoT networks

C Liu, Y Guo, N Li, X Song - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates an unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV)-assisted Internet of Things
system, where multiple UAVs take off from a data center (DC), collect data from multiple …

Path planning for multi-UAV formation rendezvous based on distributed cooperative particle swarm optimization

Z Shao, F Yan, Z Zhou, X Zhu - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Featured Application The cooperative path planning problem of multi-UAV is becoming
more and more important. The proposed path-planning algorithm presented in this paper …

Multi-UAVs tracking target in urban environment by model predictive control and Improved Grey Wolf Optimizer

P Yao, H Wang, H Ji - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, based on the Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Improved Grey Wolf
Optimizer (IGWO), a hybrid method is proposed to plan the optimal trajectories of multi-UAVs …