Unsupervised learning‐based flexible framework for surveillance planning with aerial vehicles

J Faigl, P Váňa, R Pěnička, M Saska - Journal of Field Robotics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The herein studied problem is motivated by practical needs of our participation in the
Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) 2017 in which a team of …

Surveillance planning with Bézier curves

J Faigl, P Váňa - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter concerns surveillance planning for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is
requested to periodically take snapshots of areas of interest by visiting a given set of …

Unsupervised learning for surveillance planning with team of aerial vehicles

J Faigl, P Váňa - … Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we extent an existing self-organizing map (SOM)-based approach for the
Dubins traveling salesman problem (DTSP) to solve its multi-vehicle variant generalized for …

[HTML][HTML] A memetic algorithm for path planning of curvature-constrained UAVs performing surveillance of multiple ground targets

X Zhang, J Chen, B Xin, Z Peng - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2014 - Elsevier
The problem of generating optimal paths for curvature-constrained unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) performing surveillance of multiple ground targets is addressed in this …

Occlusion-aware uav path planning for reconnaissance and surveillance in complex environments

J Zhang - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper concerns the reconnaissance and surveillance problem for multi-rotor aerial
drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) flying over geometrically complex …

Data collection planning with non-zero sensing distance for a budget and curvature constrained unmanned aerial vehicle

R Pěnička, J Faigl, M Saska, P Váňa - Autonomous Robots, 2019 - Springer
Data collection missions are one of the many effective use cases of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs), where the UAV is required to visit a predefined set of target locations to …

The dubins traveling salesman problem with neighborhoods in the three-dimensional space

P Váňa, J Sláma, J Faigl - 2018 IEEE International Conference …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce an extension of the Dubins Traveling Salesman Problem with Neighborhoods
into the 3D space in which a fixed-wing aerial vehicle is requested to visit a set of target …

Variable-speed traveling salesman problem for vehicles with curvature constrained trajectories

K Kučerová, P Váňa, J Faigl - 2021 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel approach to the multigoal trajectory planning for vehicles with
curvature-constrained trajectories such as fixed-wing aircraft. In the existing formulation …

Data collection planning with Dubins airplane model and limited travel budget

P Váňa, J Faigl, J Sláma… - … European Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the data collection planning problem for fixed-wing unmanned
aircraft vehicle (UAV) with a limited travel budget. We formulate the problem as a variant of …

On close enough orienteering problem with dubins vehicle

J Faigl, R Pěnička - … on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address a generalization of the Orienteering Problem (OP) for curvature-
constrained vehicles and to problems where it is allowed to collect a reward associated to …