Smoothed Hex-grid Trajectory Planning using Helicopter Dynamics
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چکیده
Considering Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs) the planning tasks mainly consist of finding paths between given waypoints with respect to given constraints. In this paper we developed a path planning system for flying UAVs (VTOLs and CTOLs) built upon Hexagonal grids which also supports simple dynamics (handling with speed). The planning system is additionally supported by a trajectory smoothing mechanism based on a dynamics model of a helicopter. The model can be also used for the simulation of the helicopter movement.
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