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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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Prototyp<strong>in</strong>g the Autonomous<br />

Flight Algorithms Us<strong>in</strong>g the Prepar3D® Simulator 231<br />

A<br />

B<br />

Fig. 11. Airplane flight<br />

above the highway: a) Prepar3D®, b) Control application<br />

8 Conclusions<br />

The performed tests <strong>in</strong> the<br />

SIL simulation were ended successfully. The plane can<br />

fly autonomously <strong>in</strong> a virtual reality. Therefore it can be supposed that the regula-<br />

tors cascade can be successfully used <strong>in</strong> the real world and can be implemented <strong>in</strong><br />

a hardware of a real unmanned aerial vehicle (<strong>UAV</strong>) [16]. The quality of the pre-<br />

sented solution is promis<strong>in</strong>g and will be verified dur<strong>in</strong>g test flights. It was proved<br />

that it is possible to prototype control algorithms <strong>in</strong> a virtual reality simulation<br />

software. Hav<strong>in</strong>g a work<strong>in</strong>g flight algorithm the next step could be to an imple-<br />

mentation of vision based<br />

algorithms <strong>in</strong> virtual reality, that could analyze artificial<br />

traffic and could affect aircraft control algorithm <strong>in</strong> order to follow the selected<br />

object on the ground. Furthermore, it is also possible to beg<strong>in</strong> work on algorithms<br />

responsible for avoid<strong>in</strong>g obstacles such as tall build<strong>in</strong>gs or other aircrafts.<br />

Acknowledgement. Article<br />

is co-f<strong>in</strong>anced by European Union with<strong>in</strong> European Social<br />

Fund with<strong>in</strong> SWIFT project POKL.08.02.01-24-005/10.<br />

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