Francesca Fiorentino
Path planning strategies for drone delivery for life-saving pharmaceuticals.
Rel. Giorgio Guglieri, Stefano Primatesta, Enrico Cestino. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Mechatronic Engineering, 2021
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Abstract
In the last years, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) are getting popular and are widely used to provide many applications. Specifically, a promising UAS application discussed in this thesis is the distribution of life-saving pharmaceutics using UASs. This thesis aims at defining a path planning strategy to be used to provide the distribution of life-saving pharmaceutics using UASs in populated areas. The proposed strategy is based on a method already suggested in the literature by the research group, consisting in two phases: first, a risk-map is generated analyzing the risk of a specific area; then, a path planning algorithm based on the well-known Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT) algorithm searches for the optimal path that minimizes the overall risk and the flight time.
Different optimization strategies are investigated and implemented to plan a specific flight mission for drone delivery, while satisfying specific requirements, such as: (i) minimization of the risk; (ii) minimization of the flight time; (iii) minimization of the risk, while forcing a constraint on the flight time; and, (iv), minimization of the flight time, while forcing a constraint on the risk
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