Low-altitude urban flight planning for small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) accurate vehicle kinodynamics, environment maps, and risk models to assure that flight plans consider the urban landscape as well as airspace constraints. This paper presents a suite of motion planning metrics designed for small UAS urban flight and defines map-based and path-based metrics to holistically characterize motion plan quality. Proposed metrics are examined in the context of representative geometric, graph-based, and sampling-based motion planners applied to a multicopter small UAS. A novel multi-objective heuristic is proposed and applied for graph-based and sampling motion planners at four urban UAS flight altitude layers. Monte Carlo case studies in a New York City urban environment illustrate metric map properties and planner performance. Motion plans are evaluated as a function of planning algorithm, location, range, and flight altitude.
Urban Metric Maps for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Motion Planning
Journal of Aerospace Information Systems ; 19 , 1 ; 37-52
2021-09-09
16 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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