Enhancing UAV Systems with AI-Driven Blockchain Solutions for Improved Security, Scalability, and Autonomy

Abstract

UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) enhance sustainability by enabling precise and efficient environmental monitoring with minimal ecological disruption. This study looks at how integrating artificial intelligence (AI) with blockchain technology can increase operational independence, scalability, and security of UAV systems. Blockchain technology is all about being decentralised and unchangeable, which means it keeps UAV operations secure and reliable by ensuring that data remains intact and preventing any unauthorised changes. Moreover, this research in the importance of blockchain consensus algorithms -Proof of Work (PoW), Proof of Stake (PoS), Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT), and Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS), specifically for UAV applications. AI integration improves the optimization of processes on the fly and helps to make smarter decisions, leading to plausible improvements in transaction validation and overall network efficiency. The experimental results show how effective the AI-augmented PoS and DPoS algorithms are, highlighting that they are a great fit for scalable and self-sufficient UAV applications.