Yaguchi, Yuichi (University of Aizu), Tomeba, Tomoki (University of Aizu)

Region Coverage Flight Path Planning Using Multiple UAVs to Monitor the Huge Areas

Scheduled for presentation during the Poster Session "Poster Papers Session" (FrPS), Friday, June 18, 2021, 11:30−11:45, Foyer, Mezzanine Level

2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), June 15-18, 2021, Athens, Greece

This information is tentative and subject to change. Compiled on April 24, 2024

Abstract

The development of a coverage flight planner for multiple multicopters used in a wide-area survey, such as inspecting the storage site of radioactive decontaminated soil or searching for victims in disaster response, is proposed. For these multiple multicopter application cases, effective coverage flight path planning with no collisions is needed. In this paper, we developed two parts of the system where the region is separated by two approaches and quasi-optimal flight paths for each region. As a result, each of the two region divisions showed a good equally divided region, and a flight path designed on the two region divisions was also efficiently generated. Flight tests of two multicopters with the generated paths were also conducted.