TY - GEN
T1 - Boustrophedon coverage path planning for UAV aerial surveys in wind
AU - Coombes, Matthew
AU - Chen, Wen Hua
AU - Liu, Cunjia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/25
Y1 - 2017/7/25
N2 - In the quickly developing world of precision agriculture UAV remote sensing, there is a need for a greater understanding of winds effect on fixed wing aerial surveying, as this is missing from current literature. This paper presents a method to define and calculate flight times in a Boustrophedon aerial survey coverage path in wind, for a given convex polygon, at a given sweep angle. It is shown that there exists no easy way to define a sweep angle relative to the wind that minimises flight time. This method is validated by comparing the numerical simulated path and times with a number of surveys run in the high fidelity X-Plane simulator.
AB - In the quickly developing world of precision agriculture UAV remote sensing, there is a need for a greater understanding of winds effect on fixed wing aerial surveying, as this is missing from current literature. This paper presents a method to define and calculate flight times in a Boustrophedon aerial survey coverage path in wind, for a given convex polygon, at a given sweep angle. It is shown that there exists no easy way to define a sweep angle relative to the wind that minimises flight time. This method is validated by comparing the numerical simulated path and times with a number of surveys run in the high fidelity X-Plane simulator.
KW - Coverage Path Planning
KW - Trochoids
KW - UAVs
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85034017581
U2 - 10.1109/ICUAS.2017.7991469
DO - 10.1109/ICUAS.2017.7991469
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85034017581
T3 - 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2017
SP - 1563
EP - 1571
BT - 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2017
Y2 - 13 June 2017 through 16 June 2017
ER -