Hybrid graph-clothoid based path planning for a fixed wing aircraft
Luciano Blasi, Egidio D’Amato, Immacolata Notaro, Gennaro Raspaolo
download PDFAbstract. Planning of safe and efficient trajectories is a critical task in the operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially in urban or complex environments. With the increasing use of UAVs for various applications, such as surveillance, delivery, and inspection, it is becoming more important to automatically generate collision-free paths that also consider aircraft dynamics. This paper proposes an algorithmic approach based on the Rapidly exploring random tree (RRT) algorithm combined with a clothoid-based smoothing procedure to account for aircraft performance.
Keywords
Path Planning, Clothoids, RRT, UAVs
Published online 11/1/2023, 4 pages
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Citation: Luciano Blasi, Egidio D’Amato, Immacolata Notaro, Gennaro Raspaolo, Hybrid graph-clothoid based path planning for a fixed wing aircraft, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 37, pp 104-107, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902813-23
The article was published as article 23 of the book Aeronautics and Astronautics
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