TY - CHAP A1 - Thoma, Andreas A1 - Stiemer, Luc A1 - Braun, Carsten A1 - Fisher, Alex A1 - Gardi, Alessandro G. T1 - Potential of hybrid neural network local path planner for small UAV in urban environments T2 - AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum N2 - This work proposes a hybrid algorithm combining an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with a conventional local path planner to navigate UAVs efficiently in various unknown urban environments. The proposed method of a Hybrid Artificial Neural Network Avoidance System is called HANNAS. The ANN analyses a video stream and classifies the current environment. This information about the current Environment is used to set several control parameters of a conventional local path planner, the 3DVFH*. The local path planner then plans the path toward a specific goal point based on distance data from a depth camera. We trained and tested a state-of-the-art image segmentation algorithm, PP-LiteSeg. The proposed HANNAS method reaches a failure probability of 17%, which is less than half the failure probability of the baseline and around half the failure probability of an improved, bio-inspired version of the 3DVFH*. The proposed HANNAS method does not show any disadvantages regarding flight time or flight distance. Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-2359 N1 - AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, 23-27 January 2023, National Harbor, MD & Online PB - AIAA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Havermann, Marc A1 - Seiler, F. A1 - Henning, P. ED - Dillmann, Andreas ED - Heller, Gerd ED - Klaas, Michael ED - Kreplin, Hans-Peter ED - Nitsche, Wolfgang ED - Schröder, Wolfgang T1 - Shock Tunnel Experiments and CFD Simulation of Lateral Jet Interaction in Hypersonic Flows T2 - New Results in Numerical and Experimental Fluid Mechanics VII; Contributions to the 16th STAB/DGLR Symposium Aachen, Germany 2008 Y1 - 2010 SN - 9783642142437 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14243-7_45 N1 - Notes on numerical fluid mechanics and multidisciplinary design 112 SP - 365 EP - 372 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER -