Energy-Aware Path Planning for Autonomous Inspection Drones

S S. El-Sayed A A. Hassan

Published in

IROS Workshop on Aerial Autonomy

Year

2025

Abstract

A planner that treats battery state as a first-class constraint, extending mission coverage by 19% on industrial inspection routes.

Inspection drones rarely fail because of bad paths — they fail because the path was planned as if the battery were infinite.

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