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Online trajectories · Flight corridors and Bézier bounds

Fast marching on an ESDF-derived velocity field finds paths that are inflated into flight corridors. Bernstein-based Bézier trajectories bound position and higher-order dynamics, evaluated in indoor and outdoor quadrotor navigation.

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Original title
Online Safe Trajectory Generation for Quadrotors Using Fast Marching Method and Bernstein Basis Polynomial
Publisher
IEEE
Authors
Fei Gao, William Wu, Yi Lin, Shaojie Shen
DOI
10.1109/icra.2018.8462878
Publication date
2018-05
Source language
en
Edition
2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA); 2018-05; DOI 10.1109/icra.2018.8462878
Access
Publisher abstract · restricted full text
Publication status
Published

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Source overview

Fast marching on an ESDF-derived velocity field finds paths that are inflated into flight corridors. Bernstein-based Bézier trajectories bound position and higher-order dynamics, evaluated in indoor and outdoor quadrotor navigation.

Use and review

Publisher abstract and bibliography checked. Corridor-constrained trajectories do not replace validation of mapping, estimation, tracking or changing obstacles.

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Online Safe Trajectory Generation for Quadrotors Using Fast Marching Method and Bernstein Basis Polynomial ↗

IEEE · 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA); 2018-05; DOI 10.1109/icra.2018.8462878

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