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Towards the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Comprehensive Review

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Mohsan, Syed Agha Hassnain, Khan, Muhammad Asghar, Noor, Fazal, Ullah, Insaf, Alsharif, Mohammed H.·2022·Drones
DOI 10.3390/drones6060147
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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.

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Authors
Mohsan, S. A. H., Khan, M. A., Noor, F., Ullah, I., & Alsharif, M. H.
Venue
Drones
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2022-06-15
Volume
6
Issue
6
Pages
147
ISSN
2504-446X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/drones6060147
OpenAlex
W4282970004
Cited by
916
References
70
FWCI
80.95
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
gold
Licence
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)

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