Research Article

Self-Navigating UAVs for Supervising Moving Objects over Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 4

Average reduction of searching time, flying distance, and tracking deviation observed in our proposed WSN-assisted navigation, compared to self-adaptive and PSO strategies.

StrategySearching time (s)Flying distance (km)Tracking deviation

PSO team194.322.825.06
Self-adaptive team161.922.374.28
Self-nav.136.641.930.84
Reduction from PSO29.68%31.56%83.40%
Reduction from self-adapt.15.61%18.57%80.37%