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Optmized Preflight Planning for Successful Surveillance Missions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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

Keywords: UAV; surveillance mission; optimal flight planning; payload management; NIIRS

Abstract:
This paper investigates the flight planning for surveillance missions of unmanned aerial vehicles. It proposes a prototype of preflight planner for different operative scenarios. The planner is able to provide an optimized route planning taking 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 image quality. An overview of the prototype and of the planning approach is reported and some significant test results are discussed in order to show its features.

Pages: 14 to 26

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2017. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2017

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2679