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