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Aspects of unmanned aerial vehicles path planning: Overview and applications
Author(s) -
Khan Muhammad Toaha Raza,
Muhammad Saad Malik,
Ru Yang,
Seo Junho,
Kim Dongkyun
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.4827
Subject(s) - computer science , obstacle , motion planning , obstacle avoidance , key (lock) , robot , path (computing) , collision avoidance , simulation , systems engineering , real time computing , aeronautics , artificial intelligence , computer security , mobile robot , computer network , engineering , political science , law , collision
Summary Aiming to the applications from security surveillance, military operational capabilities to the content and package delivery, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has a successfully created his space in the available technologies. The compact sized powerful flying robots are wirelessly controlled and are capable to complete tasks with and without direct human intervention. UAVs however still face serious challenges that limit the dream of complete autonomous unmanned flying machines. The key challenges include path planning and obstacle avoidance of these unmanned flying robots that are unavoidable while performing the application‐specific functionalities both in indoor and outdoor environments. In this manuscript with a survey, we investigate the state‐of‐the‐art UAV path planning algorithms and obstacle avoidance techniques. We have also summarized and compared the schemes in tabular form. In addition, current and future research directions and challenges are also discussed, showing the prospective research directions.