Title :
Towards real-world searching with fixed-wing mini-UAVs
Author :
Quigley, Morgan ; Barber, Blake ; Griffiths, Steve ; Goodrich, Michael A.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA
Abstract :
We discuss several techniques that assist in the field deployments of fixed-wing mini-UAVs to assist search teams, focusing on automatic takeoff and landing. We also present a real-time flightpath generation routine that performs a spiral search centered on a target point, and a path planner that creates waypoints for searches up mountain canyons.
Keywords :
aircraft control; path planning; remotely operated vehicles; aerial searching; automatic landing; automatic takeoff; fixed-wing mini-UAV; path planner; real-time flight path generation; Cameras; Computer science; Electric breakdown; Hardware; Humans; Mechanical engineering; Propellers; Safety; Spirals; Unmanned aerial vehicles; UAV operations; aerial searching; automatic landing; automatic takeoff; flightpath generation;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2005. (IROS 2005). 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8912-3
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2005.1545051
