UAV Mission Definition and Implementation for Visual Inspection

This paper describes the architecture of a UAV-based flight mission-definition system. The primary objective aims at improving mission planning efficiency for conducting inspection activities using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), concerning state-of-the-art waypoint-based techniques. During testing, the autonomous execution of the trajectory reduced the time required in all cases by almost a half while achieving the same output as a user-controlled manual flight. The proposed solution extends the possibilities of users in creating complex flight trajectories and significantly contributes to the higher time efficiency of recurrent flights.

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1. Track 3: Network Systems and Applications

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2. Session: 5th Workshop on Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications

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3. Short Paper