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Path Planning For Unmanned Air And Ground Vehicles In Urban Environments, Andrew B. Curtis
Path Planning For Unmanned Air And Ground Vehicles In Urban Environments, Andrew B. Curtis
Theses and Dissertations
Unmanned vehicle systems, specifically unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), have become a popular research topic. This thesis discusses the potential of a UAV-UGV system used to track a human moving through complex urban terrain. This research focuses on path planning problems for both a UAV and a UGV, and presents effective solutions for both problems. In the UAV path planning problem, we desire to plan a path for a miniature fixed-wing UAV to fly through known urban terrain without colliding with any buildings. We present the Waypoint RRT (WRRT) algorithm, which accounts for UAV dynamics while …