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Safe Drone Reconnaissance Based on Smart Trajectory Following
Ferencz, Adam ; Herout, Adam (referee) ; Beran, Vítězslav (advisor)
Drone pilots often have to keep an eye on multiple things at once while performing a reconnaissance mission. First and foremost, the pilot has to keep an eye on the drone, but in addition to that, he or she is also observing something, keeping an eye on the image, the drone's orientation, speed, and obstacles. The goal of this work is to create an assistance algorithm that makes it easier for the pilot to watch the safe position of the drone. The work presents a novel method revising the pilot's commands to keep the drone "safely close" to a predefined flight path. This allows the pilot to focus more on accomplishing the mission objectives rather than directly and safely controlling the drone. The output of this work is a novel method and its experimental application that has been user-tested. For testing, an AirSim simulator was integrated into the system, in which the user completes a mission first without correction enabled and then with it. In the user tests, the goal was to successfully complete the reconnaissance mission. Pilots spent 55 % of the time outside the defined safe area when flying without correction, and only 5 % when flying with the assistant. Test users reported that the solution helped them most in maintaining altitude and staying on the centre of the path.
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Safe Drone Reconnaissance Based on Smart Trajectory Following
Ferencz, Adam ; Herout, Adam (referee) ; Beran, Vítězslav (advisor)
Drone pilots often have to keep an eye on multiple things at once while performing a reconnaissance mission. First and foremost, the pilot has to keep an eye on the drone, but in addition to that, he or she is also observing something, keeping an eye on the image, the drone's orientation, speed, and obstacles. The goal of this work is to create an assistance algorithm that makes it easier for the pilot to watch the safe position of the drone. The work presents a novel method revising the pilot's commands to keep the drone "safely close" to a predefined flight path. This allows the pilot to focus more on accomplishing the mission objectives rather than directly and safely controlling the drone. The output of this work is a novel method and its experimental application that has been user-tested. For testing, an AirSim simulator was integrated into the system, in which the user completes a mission first without correction enabled and then with it. In the user tests, the goal was to successfully complete the reconnaissance mission. Pilots spent 55 % of the time outside the defined safe area when flying without correction, and only 5 % when flying with the assistant. Test users reported that the solution helped them most in maintaining altitude and staying on the centre of the path.
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