Mobile Ground Control Station for Local Surveillance

Segor, Florian; Bürkle, Axel; Partmann, Thomas; Schönbein, Rainer

doi:10.1109/icons.2010.33

Cited by 8 publications

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“…The shortest distance is also computed to return to the landing location. The proposed approach was integrated with the AMFIS [68], which consists of ground control station for real-time vehicle controlling and monitoring.…”

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Survey on Coverage Path Planning with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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2019

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Coverage path planning consists of finding the route which covers every point of a certain area of interest. In recent times, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been employed in several application domains involving terrain coverage, such as surveillance, smart farming, photogrammetry, disaster management, civil security, and wildfire tracking, among others. This paper aims to explore and analyze the existing studies in the literature related to the different approaches employed in coverage path planning problems, especially those using UAVs. We address simple geometric flight patterns and more complex grid-based solutions considering full and partial information about the area of interest. The surveyed coverage approaches are classified according to a classical taxonomy, such as no decomposition, exact cellular decomposition, and approximate cellular decomposition. This review also contemplates different shapes of the area of interest, such as rectangular, concave and convex polygons. The performance metrics usually applied to evaluate the success of the coverage missions are also presented.

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Survey on Coverage Path Planning with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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2019

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“…The classic use case, which has already been described e.g. in [1], [2] or [3], is the reconnaissance of an area with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) scanning the ground with sensors. The sensor characteristics such as resolution and detection range as well as vehicles characteristics such as speed, turning radius or endurance have to be considered so that the area can be completely covered and multiple scanning is reduced to a minimum.…”

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Area reconnaissance with heterogeneous groups of autonomous systems

Tchouchenkov,

Segor,

Buller

et al. 2023

Emerging Imaging and Sensing Technologies for Security and Defence VIII

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In the last years Unmanned Vehicles for different environments (UxVs) have been recognized as relevant game changers and key technologies for a wide range of military and civilian applications. Even parallel deployment of heterogeneous autonomous assets as swarms or cooperating teams is no longer science fiction, but a realistic operational scenario. Their effectiveness can be significantly increased by optimization of number, capabilities and application strategy of assigned assets, particularly in time-critical tasks (e.g. the search for missing persons, disaster relief and modern warfare operations). Especially, the movements of the vehicles must be carefully managed. However, the use of small UxVs is often accompanied by limitations like short mission time and limited sensor coverage, which in turn can be compensated by the intelligent assignment of vehicles with increased autonomy in cooperating groups.An important basis for efficient and effective autonomous reconnaissance, especially in swarming or teaming scenarios, is movement optimization considering the capabilities of the heterogeneous vehicles equipped with different sensor systems operating in a combined mission. For this purpose, algorithms have been developed at Fraunhofer IOSB that enable appropriate planning and dynamic processing in very different situations for heterogeneous groups of cooperating vehicles. In the following, two exploration methods for reconnaissance missions are described in more detail and their possibilities are discussed and compared.

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