Quadrotor Takeoff Trajectory Planning in a One-Dimensional Uncertain Wind-field Aided by Wind-Sensing Infrastructure
<|reference_start|>Quadrotor Takeoff Trajectory Planning in a One-Dimensional Uncertain Wind-field Aided by Wind-Sensing Infrastructure: This paper investigates optimal takeoff trajectory planning for a quadrotor modeled with vertical-plane rigid body dynamics in an uncertain, one-dimensional wind-field. The wind-field varies horizontally and propagates across an operating region with a known fixed speed. The operating area of the quadrotor is equipped with wind-sensing infrastructure that shares noisy anemometer measurements with a centralized trajectory planner. The measurements are assimilated via Gaussian process regression to predict the wind at unsampled locations and future time instants. A minimum-time optimal control problem is formulated for the quadrotor to take off and reach a desired vertical-plane position in the presence of the predicted wind-field. The problem is solved using numerical optimal control. Several examples illustrate and compare the performance of the trajectory planner under varying wind conditions and sensing characteristics.<|reference_end|>
@article{kakavitsas2024quadrotor,
    title={Quadrotor Takeoff Trajectory Planning in a One-Dimensional Uncertain
  Wind-field Aided by Wind-Sensing Infrastructure},
    author={Nicholas Kakavitsas, Artur Wolek},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.01518},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.2514/6.2024-0987},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2402.01518},
    primaryClass={eess.SY cs.SY}
}