Mission Planner for UAV Battery Replacement

TL;DR

This paper introduces a mission planner for autonomous UAVs that efficiently manages battery replacements at stations, ensuring UAVs can complete long-term missions, demonstrated through simulations.

Contribution

It presents a novel mission planning system for UAV battery management, including detailed components and simulation validation.

Findings

Successful demonstration in simulated multi-UAV scenarios

Ensures UAVs have sufficient energy for long-term missions

Provides a comprehensive mission planning framework

Abstract

The paper presents a mission planner for an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) battery management system. The objective of the system is to plan replacements of the UAV's battery on the static battery management stations. The plan ensures that UAVs have sufficient energy to fulfill their long-term mission, which would otherwise be impossible. The paper provides a detailed description of the mission planner and all of its components. The functionality of the planner is successfully demonstrated in simulated multi-UAV multi-station scenarios.