“…UAVs help in performing time-sensitive tasks [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ], monitoring emergencies [ 12 ], saving energy of WSN [ 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ], extending the lifetime of WSN network [ 14 , 18 ], connecting separate nodes and networks [ 12 , 19 ], and enabling data aggregation [ 17 , 20 ]. Measures such as optimizing the flight routes [ 9 , 12 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 19 ] and locations [ 15 , 19 , 21 ] of UAVs, designing clustering mechanisms [ 17 , 18 , 22 ], media access control mechanisms [ 10 , 18 , 23 , 24 ], and sleeping schedules of WSN [ 14 ] and the like have been adopted to achieve these targets. - Assisting in locating the WSN nodes [ 25 , 26 , 27 ].
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