Current Advancements on Autonomous Mission Planning and Management Systems: an AUV and UAV perspective

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent advancements in autonomous mission planning and management systems for underwater and aerial unmanned vehicles, emphasizing developments in autonomy, decision-making, and human interaction.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive survey of autonomy assessment, situational awareness, cognition, and decision-making in UVs, highlighting recent progress and future directions.

Findings

Enhanced autonomy assessment methods

Improved situational awareness techniques

Insights into human roles in UV operations

Abstract

Advances in hardware technology have enabled more integration of sophisticated software, triggering progress in the development and employment of Unmanned Vehicles (UVs), and mitigating restraints for onboard intelligence. As a result, UVs can now take part in more complex mission where continuous transformation in environmental condition calls for a higher level of situational responsiveness. This paper serves as an introduction to UVs mission planning and management systems aiming to highlight some of the recent developments in the field of autonomous underwater and aerial vehicles in addition to stressing some possible future directions and discussing the learned lessons. A comprehensive survey over autonomy assessment of UVs, and different aspects of autonomy such as situation awareness, cognition, and decision-making has been provided in this study. The paper separately explains the humanoid and autonomous system's performance and highlights the role and impact of a human in UVs operations.