Informative path planning for search and rescue using drones
More information about the algorithm is available in the following papers. Please cite it if you use it for scientific publication: Ajith Anil Meera, Marija Popović, Alex Millane and Roland Siegwart "Obstacle-aware adaptive informative path planning for uav-based target search." International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, 2019.
@INPROCEEDINGS{8794345,
author={Meera, Ajith Anil and Popović, Marija and Millane, Alexander and Siegwart, Roland},
booktitle={2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
title={Obstacle-aware Adaptive Informative Path Planning for UAV-based Target Search},
year={2019},
volume={},
number={},
pages={718-724},
doi={10.1109/ICRA.2019.8794345}}
The algorithm used in this paper can be found in tmplanner_continuous package. The algorithm for discrete IPP can be found in tmplanner_discrete package. You can also refer the masters thesis for exhaustive details about both continous and discrete IPP algorithm for drones: https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3A34ce9384-9352-41bc-99ce-2a54bd1f3361