Real-time continuous curvature path planning of UAVS in cluttered environments

Author(s):  
Kwangjin Yang ◽  
Salah Sukkarieh
Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 642
Author(s):  
Luis Miguel González de Santos ◽  
Ernesto Frías Nores ◽  
Joaquín Martínez Sánchez ◽  
Higinio González Jorge

Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are extensively used for multiple purposes, such as infrastructure inspections or surveillance. This paper presents a real-time path planning algorithm in indoor environments designed to perform contact inspection tasks using UAVs. The only input used by this algorithm is the point cloud of the building where the UAV is going to navigate. The algorithm is divided into two main parts. The first one is the pre-processing algorithm that processes the point cloud, segmenting it into rooms and discretizing each room. The second part is the path planning algorithm that has to be executed in real time. In this way, all the computational load is in the first step, which is pre-processed, making the path calculation algorithm faster. The method has been tested in different buildings, measuring the execution time for different paths calculations. As can be seen in the results section, the developed algorithm is able to calculate a new path in 8–9 milliseconds. The developed algorithm fulfils the execution time restrictions, and it has proven to be reliable for route calculation.


IEEE Access ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Mohammed Baziyad ◽  
Mohamed Saad ◽  
Raouf Fareh ◽  
Tamer Rabie ◽  
Ibrahim Kamel

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 15602-15607
Author(s):  
Jeevan Raajan ◽  
P V Srihari ◽  
Jayadev P Satya ◽  
B Bhikkaji ◽  
Ramkrishna Pasumarthy

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
Raphael Zaccone

While collisions and groundings still represent the most important source of accidents involving ships, autonomous vessels are a central topic in current research. When dealing with autonomous ships, collision avoidance and compliance with COLREG regulations are major vital points. However, most state-of-the-art literature focuses on offline path optimisation while neglecting many crucial aspects of dealing with real-time applications on vessels. In the framework of the proposed motion-planning, navigation and control architecture, this paper mainly focused on optimal path planning for marine vessels in the perspective of real-time applications. An RRT*-based optimal path-planning algorithm was proposed, and collision avoidance, compliance with COLREG regulations, path feasibility and optimality were discussed in detail. The proposed approach was then implemented and integrated with a guidance and control system. Tests on a high-fidelity simulation platform were carried out to assess the potential benefits brought to autonomous navigation. The tests featured real-time simulation, restricted and open-water navigation and dynamic scenarios with both moving and fixed obstacles.


2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (8) ◽  
pp. 2071-2093 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olimpiya Saha ◽  
Prithviraj Dasgupta ◽  
Bradley Woosley

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 567959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingzhong Yan ◽  
Daqi Zhu ◽  
Simon X. Yang

A real-time map-building system is proposed for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to build a map of an unknown underwater environment. The system, using the AUV's onboard sensor information, includes a neurodynamics model proposed for complete coverage path planning and an evidence theoretic method proposed for map building. The complete coverage of the environment guarantees that the AUV can acquire adequate environment information. The evidence theory is used to handle the noise and uncertainty of the sensor data. The AUV dynamically plans its path with obstacle avoidance through the landscape of neural activity. Concurrently, real-time sensor data are “fused” into a two-dimensional (2D) occupancy grid map of the environment using evidence inference rule based on the Dempster-Shafer theory. Simulation results show a good quality of map-building capabilities and path-planning behaviors of the AUV.


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