Real-Time Generation of Comfort-Optimal Flight Trajectories for Urban Air Mobility Missions
Landen McDonald, Yufei Wu, Sabrullah Deniz, Zhenbo Wang · AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum · 2022
View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-2157.vid In this paper, we explore the problem of planning the optimal trajectory for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the task of providing its cargo or passengers with the most comfortable transit possible. The UAV has fixed boundary conditions for its initial and final position and velocity in three-dimensional (3D) space as well as a fixed flight time to perform its task. Three unique situations are considered and the solutions are compared for two solution techniques. The initial solutions are computed using a pseudospectral optimal control approach and these results are confirmed with a convex solver. The results from these two optimization methods adhere closely to one another and prove that comfort-optimized trajectories for UAVs can successfully be computed under the given constraints.