Current Advancements on Autonomous Mission Planning and Management Systems: an AUV and UAV perspective
It offers an incremental review for researchers and practitioners in unmanned vehicle systems, summarizing existing knowledge without presenting new results.
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of recent developments in mission planning and management systems for autonomous underwater and aerial vehicles, highlighting aspects like autonomy assessment, situation awareness, and decision-making, while also discussing human roles and future directions.
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.