Swarm intelligence algorithms for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles collaboration: A comprehensive review

J Tang, H Duan, S Lao - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
Over the past decade, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have demonstrated increasing
promise. In this context, we provide a review on swarm intelligence algorithms that play an …

Reliability theory and practice for unmanned aerial vehicles

L Xing, BW Johnson - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to rapid advancements on the Internet of Things (IoT), unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), also known as drones, are transforming numerous military and civil application …

Importance measure-based phased mission reliability and UAV number optimization for swarm

Q Feng, M Liu, H Dui, Y Ren, B Sun, D Yang… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the missions of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm are very common.
However, it is still difficult to calculate the phased mission reliability of UAV swarms …

A multistate network approach for resilience analysis of UAV swarm considering information exchange capacity

T Liu, G Bai, J Tao, YA Zhang, Y Fang - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2024 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms can perform tasks in a self-organized and self-
adaptive manner, and are thus appropriate for resilience research. An efficient and resilient …

A survey on UAV computing platforms: A hardware reliability perspective

F Ahmed, M Jenihhin - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study describes the Computing Platforms (CPs) and the hardware reliability issues of
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, which recently attracted significant attention …

UAV and IoT-based systems for the monitoring of industrial facilities using digital twins: Methodology, reliability models, and application

Y Sun, H Fesenko, V Kharchenko, L Zhong… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper suggests a methodology (conception and principles) for building two-mode
monitoring systems (SMs) for industrial facilities and their adjacent territories based on the …

A dynamic mission abort policy for the swarm executing missions and its solution method by tailored deep reinforcement learning

L Liu, J Yang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
The mission abort is an effective action to avoid catastrophic accidents and enhance the
survivability of safety-critical systems such as unmanned aerial vehicle swarms and …

A multistate network approach for reliability evaluation of unmanned swarms by considering information exchange capacity

B Xu, T Liu, G Bai, J Tao, Y Zhang, Y Fang - Reliability Engineering & …, 2022 - Elsevier
An unmanned swarm is a group of numerous unmanned ground or aerial vehicles
performing tasks in a self-organized and self-adaptive manner to achieve an overall mission …

A soft resource optimization method for improving the resilience of UAV swarms under continuous attack

H Li, Q Sun, Y Zhong, Z Huang, Y Zhang - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2023 - Elsevier
Resilience is a comprehensive metric that measures the ability of an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) swarm to resist and recover after being attacked. Improving resilience is …

Remaining useful life prediction of weighted k-out-of-n systems based on dynamic random weights of importance

H Shi, S Xie, X Zhang, G Shi, B Wu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing complexity of various industrial systems, the reliability assessment and
remaining useful life prediction of weighted k-out-of-n systems considering stochastic …