• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
• /
• v.14 no.5
• /
• pp.9-17
• /
• 2020

Mobile robots, including UAVs perform missions with limited fuel. Therefore, the energy-aware path planning is required to maximize efficiency when the robot is operated for a long time. In this study, we estimated the power consumption for each maneuver of a quadcopter UAV in the 3D environment and applied to the cost functions of D^⁎ Lite. The simulations were performed in a 3D environment that is similar to the industrial sites. The efficiency of path generation was high when the energy-aware path planning with simplified heuristic was applied. In addition, the energy-aware path was generated 19.3 times faster than the shortest path with a difference within 3.2%.