UAV4PE: An Open-Source Framework to Plan UAV Autonomous Missions for Planetary Exploration

• Published in: Drones
• Main Authors: Julian Galvez-Serna, Fernando Vanegas, Shahzad Brar, Juan Sandino, David Flannery, Felipe Gonzalez
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2022
• Subjects: autonomous mission planning; planetary exploration; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP); reinforcement learning (RL); robot operating system (ROS); Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics; TL1-4050; Titan; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/drones6120391; https://doaj.org/article/5767b601537646d3bd089aa68a44a93e

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for planetary exploration missions require increased onboard mission-planning and decision-making capabilities to access full operational potential in remote environments (e.g., Antarctica, Mars or Titan). However, the uncertainty introduced by the environme...