Path planning for aerial mobility in urban scenarios: the SMARTGO project

This paper presents the SMARTGO project aimed at developing an integrated planning framework to enable safe and autonomous flight operations in urban environment. To this aim, several constraints must be taken into account such as aircraft performance, navigation and control aspects, deconfliction with other UAVs, and minimization of the risk connected to the flight. A detailed overview of the project goals and their relevance with respect to the open literature is provided, along with a description of the main technical development, i.e., the envisaged planning strategy and the creation of context map to serve as the base for the planning. Some preliminary planning results are also presented.