Real-time active detection of targets and path planning using UAVs

Fangping Chen,Yuheng Lu,Yunyi Li,Xiaodong Xie,Fangping Chen,Yuheng Lu,Yunyi Li,Xiaodong Xie

This article proposes a new method that enables Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to actively find targets and shoot photographs of them in an unknown environment, while successfully avoiding surrounding obstacles and planning optimize routes. Owing to the limited computing ability on the UAVs, we obtained the point cloud data of surrounding objects, and selected the best segmentation method of the ...