A review of current studies on the unmanned aerial vehicle-based moving target tracking methods

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become crucial tools in moving target tracking due to their agility and ability to operate in complex, dynamic environments. UAVs must meet several requirements to achieve stable tracking, including maintaining continuous target visibility amidst occlusions, ensuring flight safety, and achieving smooth trajectory planning. This paper reviews the latest advancements in UAV-based target tracking, highlighting information prediction, tracking strategies, and swarm cooperation. To address challenges including target visibility and occlusion, real-time prediction and tracking in dynamic environments, flight safety and coordination, resource management and energy efficiency, the paper identifies future research directions aimed at improving the performance, reliability, and scalability of UAV tracking system.