Towards the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Comprehensive Review
Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsana, Muhammad Asghar Khanb, Fazal Noorc, Insaf Ullahb, Mohammed H. Alsharifd✉
- aOcean College, Zhejiang University, Zheda Road 1, Zhoushan 316021, China
- bDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Hamdard Institute of Engineering & Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
- cFaculty of Computer and Information Systems, Islamic University of Madinah, Madinah 400411, Saudi Arabia
- dDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
- ✉Corresponding author
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Abstract
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have come in a great diversity of several applications such as military, construction, image and video mapping, medical, search and rescue, parcel delivery, hidden area exploration, oil rigs and power line monitoring, precision farming, wireless communication and aerial surveillance. The drone industry has been getting significant attention as a model of manufacturing, service and delivery convergence, introducing synergy with the coexistence of different emerging domains. UAVs offer implicit peculiarities such as increased airborne time and payload capabilities, swift mobility, and access to remote and disaster areas. Despite these potential features, including extensive variety of usage, high maneuverability, and cost-efficiency, drones are still limited in terms of battery endurance, flight autonomy and constrained flight time to perform persistent missions. Other critical concerns are battery endurance and the weight of drones, which must be kept low. Intuitively it is not suggested to load them with heavy batteries. This study highlights the importance of drones, goals and functionality problems. In this review, a comprehensive study on UAVs, swarms, types, classification, charging, and standardization is presented. In particular, UAV applications, challenges, and security issues are explored in the light of recent research studies and development. Finally, this review identifies the research gap and presents future research directions regarding UAVs.
TL;DRA comprehensive study on UAVs, swarms, types, classification, charging, and standardization is presented, highlighting the importance of drones, goals and functionality problems, and identifying the research gap. (Semantic Scholar)