Smooth Coverage Path Planning for UAVs with Model Predictive Control Trajectory Tracking

Within the Industry 4.0 ecosystem, Inspection Robotics is one fundamental technology to speed up monitoring processes and obtain good accuracy and performance of the inspections while avoiding possible safety issues for human personnel. This manuscript investigates the robotics inspection of areas a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Electronics (Basel) 2023-05, Vol.12 (10), p.2310
Hauptverfasser: Tripicchio, Paolo, Unetti, Matteo, D’Avella, Salvatore, Avizzano, Carlo Alberto
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Zusammenfassung:Within the Industry 4.0 ecosystem, Inspection Robotics is one fundamental technology to speed up monitoring processes and obtain good accuracy and performance of the inspections while avoiding possible safety issues for human personnel. This manuscript investigates the robotics inspection of areas and surfaces employing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The contribution starts by addressing the problem of coverage path planning and proposes a smoothing approach intended to reduce both flight time and memory consumption to store the target navigation path. Evaluation tests are conducted on a quadrotor equipped with a Model Predictive Control (MPC) policy and a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm to localize the UAV in the environment.
ISSN:2079-9292
2079-9292
DOI:10.3390/electronics12102310