Flight testing Boustrophedon coverage path planning for fixed wing UAVs in wind Matthew Coombes Wen-Hua Chen Cunjia Liu 2134/37149 https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/Flight_testing_Boustrophedon_coverage_path_planning_for_fixed_wing_UAVs_in_wind/9229793 A method was previously developed by this author to optimise the flight path of a fixed wing UAV performing aerial surveys of complex concave agricultural fields. This relies heavily on a flight time in wind prediction model as its cost function. This paper aims to validate this model by comparing flight test results with the model prediction. There are a number of assumptions that this model relies on. The major assumption is that wind is steady and uniform over the small area and time scales involved in a survey. To show that this is reasonable, wind fields measurements will be taken from a multi rotor UAV with an ultrasonic windspeed sensor. 2019-03-12 14:36:48 Aerial surveying Coverage path planning Remote sensing Boustrophedon paths Wind Trochoids Engineering not elsewhere classified