Drone Flight Plan Optimization

September 2014 - June 2015


This project was conducted in collaboration with Delair-Tech a drone company. The goal of the project was to optimize the flight plan of a long range drone to use as little energy as possible by taking into account the wind map, the ground topology and the mission requirements. We deveoloped a Java based software that reduced by 14% the energy consumption of this long range drone flights

Contributions

Trajectory Optimization

Collaborators

Bachir El Khadir
Emilie Feral
Justine Flamand
Nicolas Meiller