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Energy-Aware Grid Based Coverage Path Planning for UAVs

Authors:
Alia Ghaddar
Ahmad Merei

Keywords: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; Coverage Path Planning; Energy-Aware Trajectories; Remote Sensings; Cellular Decomposition.

Abstract:
The usage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) for different tasks has rapidly increased in recent years. An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is an unpiloted aircraft that operates by remote control or onboard computers. This technology has become promising in providing new opportunities in many fields, such as smart agriculture, photogrammetry, remote sensing, wireless coverage, rescuing and many others. Controlling the mobility of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle while monitoring geographical zones is one of the most important problems. In this context, managing the flight route by finding an optimal path that fully covers the Area of Interest with minimum energy consumption is one of the main challenges. In this work, we propose an algorithm to scan an area that reduces completion-time and energy consumption. It also ensures a complete coverage of the area. We consider an Area of Interest without obstacles and non-flying zones.

Pages: 34 to 45

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2019

Publication date: October 27, 2019

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-744-3

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 27, 2019 to October 31, 2019