Attitude, speed, and position of unmanned aerial vehicles are susceptible to wind disturbance. The types, characteristics, and mathematical models of the wind, which have great influence on unmanned aerial vehicle in the low-altitude environment, are summarized, including the constant wind, turbulent flow, many kinds of wind shear, and the propeller vortex. Combined with the mathematical model of the unmanned aerial vehicle, the mechanism of unmanned aerial vehicle movement in the wind field is illustrated from three different kinds of viewpoints including velocity viewpoint, force viewpoint, and energy viewpoint. Some simulation tests have been implemented to show the effects of different kinds of wind on unmanned aerial vehicle’s path and flight states. Finally, some proposals are presented to tell reader in which condition, which wind model should be added to simulation, and how to enhance the stability of unmanned aerial vehicle for different kinds of wind fields.

This article reviews remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROUV) and its different types focusing on the control systems. This study offers a brief introduction of unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) together with ROUV. Underwater robots are designed to work as an alternative to humans because of a difficult and hazardous underwater environment. The applications and demand of marine robots are increasing with the passage of time. There are several research articles and publications available on these topics but, a complete review of old and recent research about this technology is still hard to find. This article also assesses some recently published research papers on underwater systems. It presents the comparison of different control systems and designs of underwater vehicles. There have been major developments in marine technology depending on the needs, applications and cost of different missions. Scientists design many remotely operated vehicles based on the educational or industrial purposes. This article is presented in order to help and assist the future researchers as a massive review of the field of remotely operated underwater vehicles and their possible future developments are presented.

To improve the performance of multi-unmanned aerial vehicle path planning in plateau narrow area, a control strategy based on Cauchy mutant pigeon-inspired optimization algorithm is proposed in this article. The Cauchy mutation operator is chosen to improve the pigeon-inspired optimization algorithm by comparing and analyzing the changing trend of fitness function of the local optimum position and the global optimum position when dealing with unmanned aerial vehicle path planning problems. The plateau topography model and plateau wind field model are established. Furthermore, a variety of control constrains of unmanned aerial vehicles are summarized and modeled. By combining with relative positions and total flight duration, a cooperative path planning strategy for unmanned aerial vehicle group is put forward. Finally, the simulation results show that the proposed Cauchy mutant pigeon-inspired optimization method gives better robustness and cooperative path planning strategy which are effective and advanced as compared with traditional pigeon-inspired optimization algorithm.

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In this article, an Adaptive Sliding Mode Control (ASMC) method is proposed for