@article{Pandey2025, 
author = {Vipin Kumar Pandey and Suddhasil De},
title = {A New Self-guidance Approach in UAV for Emergency Surveillance},
year = {2025},
journal = {Unmanned Systems},
volume = {13},
number = {2},
pages = {427-438},
keywords = {Unmanned aerial vehicle, self-guidance, obstacle, maneuverability, emergency, PDR},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1142/S2301385025500256},
doi = {10.1142/S2301385025500256},
abstract = {With advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies, they have been put to use in a wide variety of scenarios, including emergency surveillance and disaster management. However, their widespread usage is still limited due to their expensive nature. Only user-piloted UAVs are extensively used still today; but their low-budget design leads to lack of auto-guidance and cooperative functions in both line-of-sight and obstacle-sensitive operations. This paper presents a new approach of self-guidance in these budget UAVs for stable maneuverability even in the obstacle-sensitive surroundings. Further, the paper additionally incorporates cooperative functioning in such self-guided budget UAVs for completing collaborative tasks of emergency surveillance. Comparative testbed results show the cost-effective benefits of the proposed methods and the precise working abilities in no-obstacle as well as obstacle-sensitive sites.}
}