Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become widely used for many di fferent applications. It is now possible to install sensing equipment (cameras of diff erent kinds, radar devices, lidar devices) onto UAVs to collect data. A question that is faced by many organizations using UAVs is: What should be the trajectory for a flight of an UAV? Given an area where data needs to be collected, what flight path should the UAV take to cover that entire area with minimal costs? Our proposed research would produce a prototype algorithm to demonstrate an optimized trajectory of a UAV using a triangular curve called the Devries Curve.
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