Flight collision between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in mid-air poses a potential risk to flight safety in low-altitude airspace. This article transforms the problem of collision avoidance between quadrotor UAVs into a trajectory-planning problem using optimal control algorithms, therefore achieving both robustness and efficiency. Specifically, the pseudospectral method is introduced to solve the raised optimal control problem, while the generated optimal trajectory is precisely followed by a feedback controller. It is worth noting that the contributions of this article also include the introduction of the normalized relative coordinate, so that UAVs can obtain collision-free trajectories more conveniently in real time. The collision-free trajectories for a classical scenario of collision avoidance between two UAVs are given in the simulation part by both solving the optimal control problem and querying the prior results. The scalability of the proposed method is also verified in the simulation part by solving a collision avoidance problem among multiple UAVs.


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    Title :

    Trajectory planning with mid-air collision avoidance for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2022-07-01


    Size :

    17 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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