Towards Fully Autonomous UAVs: A Survey
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have undergone rapid developments in recent decades. This has made them very popular for various military and civilian applications allowing us to reach places that were previously hard to reach in addition to saving time and lives. A highly desirable direction when developi...
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| description | Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have undergone rapid developments in recent decades. This has made them very popular for various military and civilian applications allowing us to reach places that were previously hard to reach in addition to saving time and lives. A highly desirable direction when developing unmanned aerial vehicles is towards achieving fully autonomous missions and performing their dedicated tasks with minimum human interaction. Thus, this paper provides a survey of some of the recent developments in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles related to safe autonomous navigation, which is a very critical component in the whole system. A great part of this paper focus on advanced methods capable of producing three-dimensional avoidance maneuvers and safe trajectories. Research challenges related to unmanned aerial vehicle development are also highlighted. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a1940e4893dd426ab62618907e7f6b722023-11-22T15:13:35ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202021-09-012118622310.3390/s21186223Towards Fully Autonomous UAVs: A SurveyTaha Elmokadem0Andrey V. Savkin1School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, AustraliaSchool of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, AustraliaUnmanned Aerial Vehicles have undergone rapid developments in recent decades. This has made them very popular for various military and civilian applications allowing us to reach places that were previously hard to reach in addition to saving time and lives. A highly desirable direction when developing unmanned aerial vehicles is towards achieving fully autonomous missions and performing their dedicated tasks with minimum human interaction. Thus, this paper provides a survey of some of the recent developments in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles related to safe autonomous navigation, which is a very critical component in the whole system. A great part of this paper focus on advanced methods capable of producing three-dimensional avoidance maneuvers and safe trajectories. Research challenges related to unmanned aerial vehicle development are also highlighted.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/18/6223UAVsaerial dronesflying robotsautonomous navigationtrajectory planningobstacle avoidance |
| spellingShingle | Taha Elmokadem Andrey V. Savkin Towards Fully Autonomous UAVs: A Survey Sensors UAVs aerial drones flying robots autonomous navigation trajectory planning obstacle avoidance |
| title | Towards Fully Autonomous UAVs: A Survey |
| title_full | Towards Fully Autonomous UAVs: A Survey |
| title_fullStr | Towards Fully Autonomous UAVs: A Survey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards Fully Autonomous UAVs: A Survey |
| title_short | Towards Fully Autonomous UAVs: A Survey |
| title_sort | towards fully autonomous uavs a survey |
| topic | UAVs aerial drones flying robots autonomous navigation trajectory planning obstacle avoidance |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/18/6223 |
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