Accelerating Autonomous Flight: Exploring Innovations and Strategies for Optimizing Drone Speed

Lade Gunakar Rao, G Swapna, Swapna Gundu, Bhargav Somisetty, P. Ramana

2025

Abstract

The rapid growth of autonomous drone technology offers wide-ranging perspectives and opportunities in logistics, surveillance, and emergency response. Among the critical factors influencing drone performance, speed is paramount and directly associated with efficiency and effectiveness in applications. Thus, this research, explores innovative methods and strategies are explored for optimized drone speed combined with stability, safety, and energy efficiency. We discuss recent advances in hardware, control algorithms, and sensor integration and outline the challenges arising in high-speed autonomous navigation, including some basic issues of obstacle detection, path planning, and environmental adaptation. Finally, we give an outline of trade-offs between speed and other operational parameters and provide balanced solutions for enhanced UAV performance. This work will demonstrate that gains in the speed of a drone in terms of safety and accuracy may be achieved if its multidisciplinary approach can combine high-tech AI-driven path planning, robust real-time data processing, and optimal propulsion systems. It may thus open avenues of further innovation in UAV technology to permit autonomous flight at even greater speeds. This paper traces a series of innovations presently underway to optimize drone speed. It describes some of the shifts in propulsion, control systems, sensor integration, and algorithmic processing that go with the challenge and likely trade-offs involved. These three topics would give a feel of how things stand now and where further improvement in autonomous UAV speeds could take place.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gunakar Rao L., Swapna G., Gundu S., Somisetty B. and Ramana P. (2025). Accelerating Autonomous Flight: Exploring Innovations and Strategies for Optimizing Drone Speed. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Futuristic Technology - Volume 1: INCOFT; ISBN 978-989-758-763-4, SciTePress, pages 624-630. DOI: 10.5220/0013582900004664

in Bibtex Style

@conference{incoft25,
author={Lade Gunakar Rao and G Swapna and Swapna Gundu and Bhargav Somisetty and P. Ramana},
title={Accelerating Autonomous Flight: Exploring Innovations and Strategies for Optimizing Drone Speed},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Futuristic Technology - Volume 1: INCOFT},
year={2025},
pages={624-630},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013582900004664},
isbn={978-989-758-763-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Futuristic Technology - Volume 1: INCOFT
TI - Accelerating Autonomous Flight: Exploring Innovations and Strategies for Optimizing Drone Speed
SN - 978-989-758-763-4
AU - Gunakar Rao L.
AU - Swapna G.
AU - Gundu S.
AU - Somisetty B.
AU - Ramana P.
PY - 2025
SP - 624
EP - 630
DO - 10.5220/0013582900004664
PB - SciTePress