IEEE Access· 2019Q1· Review
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges
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Short summary
Smart UAVs are poised to revolutionize civil infrastructure inspection and other applications, projected to capture over $45 billion in market value.
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Key points
- UAVs are rapidly expanding into civil applications like monitoring, wireless coverage, remote sensing, search and rescue, delivery, security, precision agriculture, and infrastructure inspection.
- Smart UAVs are expected to drive a market value exceeding $45 billion, with civil infrastructure being a dominant sector.
- Key research challenges for UAVs include charging, collision avoidance, swarming behavior, networking, and security.
- The paper reviews current research trends and offers future insights into potential UAV uses and approaches to overcome challenges.
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Abstract
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil application domains, including real-time monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote sensing, search and rescue, delivery of goods, security and surveillance, precision agriculture, and civil infrastructure inspection. Smart UAVs are the next big revolution in the UAV technology promising to provide new opportunities in different applications, especially in civil infrastructure in terms of reduced risks and lower cost. Civil infrastructure is expected to dominate more than $45 Billion market value of UAV usage. In this paper, we present UAV civil applications and their challenges. We also discuss the current research trends and provide future insights for potential UAV uses. Furthermore, we present the key challenges for UAV civil applications, including charging challenges, collision avoidance and swarming challenges, and networking and security-related challenges. Based on our review of the recent literature, we discuss open research challenges and draw high-level insights on how these challenges might be approached.
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