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[Studies in Computational Intelligence 481] Artur Babiarz, Robert Bieda, Karol Jędrasiak, Aleksander Nawrat (auth.), Aleksander Nawrat, Zygmunt Kuś (eds.) - Vision Based Systemsfor UAV Applications (2013, Sprin

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192 D. Cedrych et al.<br />

mention the collision free path plann<strong>in</strong>g, the vehicle stabiliz<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> chang<strong>in</strong>g<br />

weather conditions, determ<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the aerial position and orientation and many others.<br />

Due to the a large number of possible applications and benefits related to<br />

them, <strong>in</strong>tensive researches have been done <strong>in</strong> this area. [1, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21, 24].<br />

This paper addresses the first of po<strong>in</strong>ted out issues - the problem of determ<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />

the collision free path. Intended application of the developed <strong>UAV</strong> control system<br />

is perform<strong>in</strong>g autonomously the patroll<strong>in</strong>g mission over an unstructured terra<strong>in</strong>.<br />

The goal of the planner is determ<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the set of way po<strong>in</strong>ts that make the route<br />

the vehicle is <strong>in</strong>tended to follow. There are many methods and algorithms of plann<strong>in</strong>g<br />

collision free paths, derived <strong>in</strong> a straight-l<strong>in</strong>e from mobile robotics [3, 6, 7, 8,<br />

9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 20, 25]. In this work we present simulation results of our algorithm<br />

<strong>in</strong>troduced <strong>in</strong> previous work [22, 4] based on the extensive mathematical<br />

research [32, 33, 34] and probabilistic approach [2, 12, 13, 23, 28] to solv<strong>in</strong>g the<br />

plann<strong>in</strong>g problem. The plann<strong>in</strong>g process is based on the topological map that conta<strong>in</strong>s<br />

<strong>in</strong>formation about the height of the terra<strong>in</strong> over which the vehicle is <strong>in</strong>tended<br />

to perform its patrol mission. The work of the method is illustrated with an exemplary<br />

real map of a fragment of the national border between Poland and Slovakia.<br />

This fragment of the border is mounta<strong>in</strong>ous and it follows that the border l<strong>in</strong>e is<br />

complex.<br />

2 Overview of the System<br />

In this section let us recall the conceptual diagram of the <strong>UAV</strong> control system with<br />

the planner module [22]. Figure 1 shows general diagram of the navigation and<br />

control system of the <strong>UAV</strong>. It is created on the base of a typical, known from mobile<br />

robotics hierarchical, hybrid architecture.<br />

Fig. 1. The conceptual diagram of the <strong>UAV</strong> control system with the planner module be<strong>in</strong>g<br />

the po<strong>in</strong>t of the work presented

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