Sample-based Fixed-wing UAV Obstacle Avoidance Method

Houxin Zhang, Jinwen Hu, Chunhui Zhao, Xiaolei Hou, Zhao Xu, Kexin Guo

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Abstract

Compared with the quadrotors, the fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have additional flight constraints such as minimum turning radius, minimum flight speed, and maximum climb rate, which makes it challenging to design obstacle avoidance algorithms for the fixed-wing UAVs. In this paper, we present a novel method to generate a collision-free path based on the Dubins kinetic model. The Monte Carlo sampling algorithm is adopted to solve the optimization problem of the non-analytic path. And the Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) method is utilized to optimize the sampling area for accelerating the solving process. Further, an evaluation function is designed which includes the task-performing efficiency and the fuel consumption to get the optimal flight path. Finally, the simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 IEEE 16th International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA 2020
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages973-978
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728190938
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Oct 2020
Event16th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA 2020 - Virtual, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Duration: 9 Oct 202011 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA
Volume2020-October
ISSN (Print)1948-3449
ISSN (Electronic)1948-3457

Conference

Conference16th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA 2020
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityVirtual, Sapporo, Hokkaido
Period9/10/2011/10/20

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