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Path Planning for Rapid Aerial Mapping with Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Authors:
Eduard Santamaria
Florian Segor
Igor Tchouchenkov
Rainer Schönbein

Keywords: aerial situation image; unmanned aerial vehicles; complete coverage path planning

Abstract:
One focus of research at Frauhofer IOSB is the utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles for data acquisition. Past efforts have lead to the development of a hardware and software system able to rapidly generate a complete and up-to-date aerial image by combining several single high resolution pictures taken by multiple unmanned aerial vehicles. However, the path planning component of the system was not designed to support no-fly zones inside the area of interest. In this paper, we present a new complete coverage path planning algorithm that provides support for no-fly zones inside the area, and also increases efficiency by reducing the number of turns. The proposed method is suitable for complex areas that may contain known obstacles and no-fly zones, to be covered by maneuverable systems such as multirotor aircraft.

Pages: 82 to 87

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: January 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4243

ISBN: 978-1-61208-246-2

Location: Seville, Spain

Dates: from January 27, 2013 to February 1, 2013