Background and Project Objectives
This research project is studying the problem of improving the
safety of UAS operations by finding safe, efficient paths.
Operating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over inhabited areas
requires mitigating the risk to persons on the ground.
Because the risk depends upon the flight path, UAV operators
need approaches that can find low-risk flight paths between the
mission's start and finish points.
Because the flight paths with the lowest risk could be excessively
long and indirect, UAV operators are concerned about the tradeoff
between risk and flight time.