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A Preflight Planner for Succesful Missions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Authors:
Carlo Di Benedetto
Domenico Pascarella
Gabriella Gigante
Salvatore Luongo
Angela Vozella
Francesco Martone

Keywords: UAV; flight planner; payload management; NIIRS

Abstract:
This paper investigates the flight planning for unmanned aerial vehicles. It proposes a prototype of preflight planner for different models of unmanned aircrafts. The planner is able to take into account several constraints (e.g., the vehicle dynamics, the no-fly zones, the endurance, the feasibility of the mission objectives, the terrain separation, etc.). It also provides a quantitative estimation of the air data link coverage and of the National Imagery Interpretability Rating Scale (NIIRS) index for the images quality. An overview of the prototype is reported and some significant test results are discussed in order to show its features.

Pages: 18 to 24

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: June 26, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3913

ISBN: 978-1-61208-483-1

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from June 26, 2016 to June 30, 2016