Survey on Coverage Path Planning with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Coverage path planning consists of finding the route which covers every point of a certain area of interest. In recent times, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been employed in several application domains involving terrain coverage, such as surveillance, smart farming, photogrammetry, disaster management, civil security, and wildfire tracking, among others. This paper aims to explore and analyze the existing studies in the literature related to the different approaches employed in coverage path planning problems, especially those using UAVs. We address simple geometric flight patterns and more complex grid-based solutions considering full and partial information about the area of interest. The surveyed…

• CD
  Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
• CN
  Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

  Awards: 2017-6, 16/2551-0000, 308487/2017-6
• FD
  Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul

  Awards: 16/2551-0000/472-2, Code 001, 16/2551, 16/2551-0000