A Review of the Informative Path Planning, Autonomous Exploration and Route Planning Using UAV in Environment Monitoring

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been used in several applications for monitoring environments and mapping. To carry out the mapping of these environments, the UAV needs to decide which path to follow to collect as much information about the environment to maximize the search area. In the literature, these issues are being addressed within the area of Informative Path Planning (IPP), Route Planning (PR) and Autonomous Exploration of environments. As a way to clarify these problems and their objectives in robotics, this article aims to present a comprehensive review on these areas highlighting their of approaches. For this, a comprehensive review of the main existing methods to solve them was carried out and this study serves as a starting point and a guide for everyone interested in exploring the monitoring area for data acquisition in unknown environments.