Trajectory Planning Method of UAVs Considering the Error Correction

Abstract

It is necessary to correct the errors of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for successfully accomplishing its tasks, especially considering the large error accumulation during a long flight. To realize the trajectory planning of UAVs with error correction, we propose a modeling method with multi-steps optimization. The optimal trajectory of the UAV is obtained by solving the program developed on MATLAB. The results illustrate that this modeling method is feasible and reasonable, which achieves the objectives that trajectory length is as short as possible and that the correction points the UAV passes are as few as possible.