Computationaly Simple Obstacle Avoidance Control Law for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Cieśluk, Jakub; Gosiewski, Zdzisław; Ambroziak, Leszek; Romaniuk, Sławomir

doi:10.1515/ama-2015-0010

Abstract

The investigations of the system which allow to avoid obstacles by the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are presented in the paper. The system is designed to enable the full autonomous UAV flight in an unknown environment. As an information source about obstacles digital camera was used. Developed algorithm uses the existing relations between the imaging system and the parameters read from the UAV autopilot. Synthesis of the proposed obstacle avoidance control law was oriented for computational simplicity. Presented algorithm was checked during simulation studies and in-flight tests.

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