The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle line-imitating flight
waypoint searching method, an unmanned aerial vehicle line-imitating flight
route planning method and an unmanned aerial vehicle line-imitating flight
route planning
system, and the method comprises the steps: firstly, obtaining a center line discrete
point sequence of an inspection road, and setting a
waypoint spacing of a line-imitating flight
route; and then determining a
direction vector of the broken
line segment to be searched according to the center line discrete
point sequence. And then, according to the current
waypoint coordinate, the
direction vector and the waypoint spacing, determining the coordinate of a candidate waypoint, and verifying whether the candidate waypoint is on the broken
line segment to be searched or not. If yes, the candidate waypoints are included in the waypoint set, and the candidate waypoints serve as the current waypoint to continue to search for the next waypoint. And if not, calculating the remaining distance which needs to be moved subsequently after moving to the
terminal point of the broken
line segment to be searched, and searching out the
target line segment. And finally, searching the waypoints meeting the waypoint spacing by combining the
direction vector and the starting point coordinate of the
target line segment and the residual distance. Therefore, the line-imitating routing inspection waypoints are automatically generated, and the line-imitating flight routing inspection
route planning efficiency of the unmanned aerial vehicle on the long linear road is improved.