Environment for Planning Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Operations

Abstract

Planning and executing missions in terms of trajectory generation are challenging problems in the operational phase of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) lifecycle. The growing adoption of UAVs in several civil applications requires the definition of precise procedures and tools to safely manage UAV missions that may involve flight over populated areas. The paper aims at providing a contribution toward the definition of a reliable environment, called FLIP (flight planner) for route planning and risk evaluation in the framework of mini- and micro-UAV missions over populated areas. The environment represents a decision support system (DSS) for UAV operators and other decision makers, like airports authorities and aviation agencies. A new ICT tool integrating an innovative procedure for evaluating the risk related to the use of UAV over populated areas is proposed.

Mission Planning for Low Altitude Aerial Drones during Water Sampling

“…Planning for a launch/landing site to conduct water samples is not a trivial problem, and almost no research has been conducted to date on modeling sUAS image/data collection scenarios in the multi-faceted geographic context. We are unaware of previous research related to the geographic context problem with sUAS [19] in a water sampling application. Previous research on optimizing sUAS aircraft trajectories is in the classical path planning research problem domain.…”

The Small Air Objects Detection Method on the Basis of Combination of Single-position and Different Receipt of Signals

“…The algorithm of optimal processing (1), (2), which provides detection of the object when it is irradiated by several transmitters, is reduced to the coordinated processing of received echoes, quadratic detection in each processing channel and weight summation of detector outputs of all channels. The weights depend on the signal-to-noise ratio and the spectral noise density in the processing channels.…”

“…In modern conditions, the solution of the problem of building a reliable air defense system is significantly complicated due to the emergence of small unmanned aerial vehicles [1]- [6]. Small air objects such as guided missiles (projectiles), guided aerial bombs, cruise missiles of various types of bases, anti-radar missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles have specific flight characteristics [2]- [4], [7]- [11]. First of all, these are their small effective scattering surfaces, a wide range of speeds, the implementation of covert flights at low and very low altitudes using the terrain [2]- [4], [12]- [14].…”

“…Small air objects such as guided missiles (projectiles), guided aerial bombs, cruise missiles of various types of bases, anti-radar missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles have specific flight characteristics [2]- [4], [7]- [11]. First of all, these are their small effective scattering surfaces, a wide range of speeds, the implementation of covert flights at low and very low altitudes using the terrain [2]- [4], [12]- [14]. These features significantly complicate the task of detecting small air objects.…”