• DocumentCode
    2593863
  • 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
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    2-6 Aug. 2005
  • Firstpage
    3028
  • Lastpage
    3033
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2005. (IROS 2005). 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8912-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IROS.2005.1545051
  • Filename
    1545051