Tsoukalas, Athanasios (New York University Abu Dhabi), Tzes, Anthony (New York University Abu Dhabi), Papatheodorou, Sotiris (Imperial College London), Khorrami, Farshad (NYU Tandon School of Engineering (polytechnic Institute))

UAV-Deployment for city-wide area coverage and computation of optimal response trajectories

Scheduled for presentation during the Regular Session "Path Planning I" (WeA2), Wednesday, September 2, 2020, 11:00−11:20, Kozani

2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), September 1-4, 2020 (Postponed from June 9-12, 2020), Athens, Greece

This information is tentative and subject to change. Compiled on April 25, 2024

Abstract

The selection of the UAV-dispatching stations within the city’s border is amongst the topics addressed in this article. Under the assumption of a concave planar cityarea, a constrained minimization problem is formulated, which provides a set of near-optimum UAV-locations. Following this selection, and given the capacity of the on-board energy and the tetrahedralized-based decomposition of the concave hull of the allowable 3D-space that the UAV’s can fly, an A*- algorithm optimized by an iterative procedure relying on ray casting is provided to compute the boundary of the UAV’s reachable space. At the end, this article provides the necessary on-board energy so that every point within the metropolitan area can be reached by a certain number of UAVs.