Integration of Mission Planning and Flight Scheduling for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
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This article presents the integration of on-line mission planning and flight scheduling for an unmanned aerial vehicle in military observation missions. Planning selects and orders the best subset of observations to be carried out and schedules the observations while accommodating time windows. The vehicle is subjected to speed, fuel supply and flight constraints in a uncertain and dynamic environment. The modeling of the problem and the algorithms implementation based on the exploration of a graph by an ordered depth-first search are presented. Mission planning and flight scheduling function is integrated in an on-board architecture based on Petri nets.
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