A Comprehensive Review of UAV-UGV Collaboration: Advancements and Challenges
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have rapidly evolved, becoming integral to various applications such as environmental monitoring, disaster response, and precision agriculture. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the advancements and the challenges in UAV...
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| description | Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have rapidly evolved, becoming integral to various applications such as environmental monitoring, disaster response, and precision agriculture. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the advancements and the challenges in UAV-UGV collaboration and its potential applications. These systems offer enhanced situational awareness and operational efficiency, enabling complex tasks that are beyond the capabilities of individual systems by leveraging the complementary strengths of UAVs and UGVs. Key areas explored in this review include multi-UAV and multi-UGV systems, collaborative aerial and ground operations, and the communication and coordination mechanisms that support these collaborative efforts. Furthermore, this paper discusses potential limitations, challenges and future research directions, and considers issues such as computational constraints, communication network instability, and environmental adaptability. The review also provides a detailed analysis of how these issues impact the effectiveness of UAV-UGV collaboration. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4d0a6acdc4b047f89a19b02549d867352024-12-27T14:34:22ZengMDPI AGJournal of Sensor and Actuator Networks2224-27082024-11-011368110.3390/jsan13060081A Comprehensive Review of UAV-UGV Collaboration: Advancements and ChallengesIsuru Munasinghe0Asanka Perera1Ravinesh C. Deo2Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa 10400, Sri LankaSchool of Engineering, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, QLD 4300, AustraliaSchool of Mathematics, Physics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, QLD 4300, AustraliaUnmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have rapidly evolved, becoming integral to various applications such as environmental monitoring, disaster response, and precision agriculture. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the advancements and the challenges in UAV-UGV collaboration and its potential applications. These systems offer enhanced situational awareness and operational efficiency, enabling complex tasks that are beyond the capabilities of individual systems by leveraging the complementary strengths of UAVs and UGVs. Key areas explored in this review include multi-UAV and multi-UGV systems, collaborative aerial and ground operations, and the communication and coordination mechanisms that support these collaborative efforts. Furthermore, this paper discusses potential limitations, challenges and future research directions, and considers issues such as computational constraints, communication network instability, and environmental adaptability. The review also provides a detailed analysis of how these issues impact the effectiveness of UAV-UGV collaboration.https://www.mdpi.com/2224-2708/13/6/81unmanned aerial vehicleunmanned ground vehicleheterogeneous robotsmulti-robot collaboration |
| spellingShingle | Isuru Munasinghe Asanka Perera Ravinesh C. Deo A Comprehensive Review of UAV-UGV Collaboration: Advancements and Challenges Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks unmanned aerial vehicle unmanned ground vehicle heterogeneous robots multi-robot collaboration |
| title | A Comprehensive Review of UAV-UGV Collaboration: Advancements and Challenges |
| title_full | A Comprehensive Review of UAV-UGV Collaboration: Advancements and Challenges |
| title_fullStr | A Comprehensive Review of UAV-UGV Collaboration: Advancements and Challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Comprehensive Review of UAV-UGV Collaboration: Advancements and Challenges |
| title_short | A Comprehensive Review of UAV-UGV Collaboration: Advancements and Challenges |
| title_sort | comprehensive review of uav ugv collaboration advancements and challenges |
| topic | unmanned aerial vehicle unmanned ground vehicle heterogeneous robots multi-robot collaboration |
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