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Motion Planning

The goal of this section is to provide an overview and intuitive introduction on the basic concepts of motion planning for aerial robotics. Motion planning deals with the challenge of how the trajectory/path of an aerial robot should be such that it accomplishes a desired task such as collision-free point-to-point navigation, inspection of a desired structure or exploration of an unknown environment. 

A wide variety of techniques for motion planning exist, each of them having its own advantages and disadvantages. Within this course, only a small subset of the relevant methods is presented. More specifically, this section contains the following subsections:
  1. Holonomic Vehicle Boundary Value Solver
  2. Dubins Airplane model Boundary Value Solver
  3. Collision-free Navigation
  4. Structural Inspection Path Planning
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