QUAV: Quantum-Assisted Path Planning and Optimization for UAV Navigation with Obstacle Avoidance
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| author | Innan, Nouhaila Kashif, Muhammad Marchisio, Alberto Gan, Yung-Sze Barbaresco, Frederic Shafique, Muhammad |
| author_facet | Innan, Nouhaila Kashif, Muhammad Marchisio, Alberto Gan, Yung-Sze Barbaresco, Frederic Shafique, Muhammad |
| contents | The growing demand for drone navigation in urban and restricted airspaces requires real-time path planning that is both safe and scalable. Classical methods often struggle with the computational load of high-dimensional optimization under dynamic constraints like obstacle avoidance and no-fly zones. This work introduces QUAV, a quantum-assisted UAV path planning framework based on the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), to the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first applications of QAOA for drone trajectory optimization. QUAV models pathfinding as a quantum optimization problem, allowing efficient exploration of multiple paths while incorporating obstacle constraints and geospatial accuracy through UTM coordinate transformation. A theoretical analysis shows that QUAV achieves linear scaling in circuit depth relative to the number of edges, under fixed optimization settings. Extensive simulations and a real-hardware implementation on IBM's ibm_kyiv backend validate its performance and robustness under noise. Despite hardware constraints, results demonstrate that QUAV generates feasible, efficient trajectories, highlighting the promise of quantum approaches for future drone navigation systems. |
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| spellingShingle | QUAV: Quantum-Assisted Path Planning and Optimization for UAV Navigation with Obstacle Avoidance Innan, Nouhaila Kashif, Muhammad Marchisio, Alberto Gan, Yung-Sze Barbaresco, Frederic Shafique, Muhammad Quantum Physics The growing demand for drone navigation in urban and restricted airspaces requires real-time path planning that is both safe and scalable. Classical methods often struggle with the computational load of high-dimensional optimization under dynamic constraints like obstacle avoidance and no-fly zones. This work introduces QUAV, a quantum-assisted UAV path planning framework based on the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), to the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first applications of QAOA for drone trajectory optimization. QUAV models pathfinding as a quantum optimization problem, allowing efficient exploration of multiple paths while incorporating obstacle constraints and geospatial accuracy through UTM coordinate transformation. A theoretical analysis shows that QUAV achieves linear scaling in circuit depth relative to the number of edges, under fixed optimization settings. Extensive simulations and a real-hardware implementation on IBM's ibm_kyiv backend validate its performance and robustness under noise. Despite hardware constraints, results demonstrate that QUAV generates feasible, efficient trajectories, highlighting the promise of quantum approaches for future drone navigation systems. |
| title | QUAV: Quantum-Assisted Path Planning and Optimization for UAV Navigation with Obstacle Avoidance |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21361 |