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Integrated Guidance and Gimbal Control for Coverage Planning With Visibility Constraints

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Coverage path planning with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a core task for many services and applications including search and rescue, precision agriculture, infrastructure inspection and surveillance. This work proposes… Click to show full abstract

Coverage path planning with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a core task for many services and applications including search and rescue, precision agriculture, infrastructure inspection and surveillance. This work proposes an integrated guidance and gimbal control coverage path planning (CPP) approach, in which the mobility and gimbal inputs of an autonomous UAV agent are jointly controlled and optimized to achieve full coverage of a given object of interest, according to a specified set of optimality criteria. The proposed approach uses a set of visibility constraints to integrate the physical behavior of sensor signals (i.e., camera-rays) into the coverage planning process, thus generating optimized coverage trajectories that take into account which parts of the scene are visible through the agent's camera at any point in time. The integrated guidance and gimbal control CPP problem is posed in this work as a constrained optimal control problem which is then solved using mixed integer programming (MIP) optimization. Extensive numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Keywords: integrated guidance; coverage; control; guidance gimbal; gimbal control

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Year Published: 2023

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