A survey on unmanned aerial vehicle collision avoidance systems

TL;DR

This survey reviews various UAV collision avoidance systems, analyzing their sensing, detection, and avoidance components, highlighting their categories, advantages, and disadvantages to aid future development.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive comparison and discussion of existing UAV collision avoidance systems, categorizing their components and evaluating their strengths and weaknesses.

Findings

Categorization of sensing and detection methods

Comparison of collision avoidance strategies

Discussion of advantages and disadvantages

Abstract

Collision avoidance is a key factor in enabling the integration of unmanned aerial vehicle into real life use, whether it is in military or civil application. For a long time there have been a large number of works to address this problem; therefore a comparative summary of them would be desirable. This paper presents a survey on the major collision avoidance systems developed in up to date publications. Each collision avoidance system contains two main parts: sensing and detection, and collision avoidance. Based on their characteristics each part is divided into different categories; and those categories are explained, compared and discussed about advantages and disadvantages in this paper.