Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) routing is transitioning from an emerging topic to a growing research area as the 3D flexible utilization of airspace, promogulated by UAVs, is a potential game changer in solving the urban air mobility challenge by allowing to reshape transportation and logistics in the future. This has revealed a need to classify different types of research and examine the general characteristics of the research area. This research aims to assist in identifying the main topics and emerging research streams and provides a published overview of the current state and contributions to the area of the UAV routing problem (UAVRP) and a general categorization of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) followed by a UAVRP classification with a graphical taxonomy based on the analysis of UAVRP current status. To achieve this, an analysis of the existing research contributions promulgated in this domain is conducted. This analysis is used to identify the current state of UAVRP and the gaps related to the UAVs' flight dynamics and weather conditions, which significantly influence the fuel consumption of the UAV when modeling the UAVRP.


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    Title :

    Unmanned aerial vehicle routing problems:A literature review


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2020-07-01


    Remarks:

    Thibbotuwawa , A , Bocewicz , G , Nielsen , P & Banaszak , Z 2020 , ' Unmanned aerial vehicle routing problems : A literature review ' , Applied Sciences (Switzerland) , vol. 10 , no. 13 , 4504 . https://doi.org/10.3390/app10134504



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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