Autonomous flying vehicles are promising transportation of the future, which have the function of ground vehicles and low-altitude aircraft. To plan a feasible path effectively, an improved optimal rapidly-exploring random tree (RRT*) method is proposed. Firstly, a cost function considering driving efficiency and the energy consumption is established. Then, the cost of a known feasible path, which flies from the start point to the goal point directly, is calculated as a benchmark. According to the benchmark, the planning area is reduced to an elliptical area. The proposed method is verified by simulations with an actual cross-country environment. Results show that the computation time decreased by 11.3% compared with the basic RRT* method.
A Path Planning Method for Autonomous Flying Vehicles Using an Improved RRT* Algorithm
Lect. Notes Electrical Eng.
International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems ; 2022 ; Xi'an, China September 23, 2022 - September 25, 2022
Proceedings of 2022 International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems (ICAUS 2022) ; Chapter : 338 ; 3665-3675
2023-03-10
11 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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