Multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Cooperative Tactics: A Survey

With recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), there is a growing need for cooperation among multiple vehicles. One approach to enable cooperation is through tactics. However, there is a lack of consensus on how these tactics should be defined or applied to cooperative UAV systems. Moreover, the existing literature does not clearly identify the main challenges inherent in cooperative tactics. We survey recent contributions across both military and civilian domains to consolidate how the term cooperative tactics is employed. We propose a framework that clarifies the core components of multi-UAV cooperation and identifies the main research blocks addressed in the existing work.