Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Navigation using a Behaviour based Control Architecture
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This work describes a development of tele-operation control system for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). At this moment, the UAV is mostly used in various purposes such as surveillance, search and rescue mission, agriculture, and aerial photography. Generally, the UAV requires a human operator to remotely control it. This may introduce the problem as the pilot cannot observe all obstacles surrounding the UAV and this leads to mistakes during operation. Therefore, the UAV control system utilising a behaviour based control architecture has been developed in order to safely navigate the UAV to different goal locations. A series of experiments have been conducted and the results reveal that the UAV equipped with the developed system can effectively avoid collisions with unexpected obstacles and can successfully complete its tasks in a robust and smooth manner.
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