Path Planning Methods for UAVs: A Survey
Xi Chen, Jun Tang, Yirun Ruan, Jianjun Zhan · 2024
After years of development, low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a pyramidally important role in applications of miscellaneous fields by virtues of their excellent mobility and safety. With the increasing difficulty of practical applications, UAV technology research is evolving towards the direction of multi-UAV collaboration. As the primary problem of multi-UAV cooperative mission, path planning attracts more and more researchers' attention. It is followed by diversified multi-UAV path planning algorithms. This paper therefore provides a review of this issue and proposes a novel systematic classification of path planning algorithms. According to this classification, this paper mainly summarizes the typical path planning methods and their corresponding application or development on multiple UAVs. The performance of each algorithm is also discussed. Finally, this paper prospects the future development trend of multi-UAV path planning.