Real-time dynamic trajectory smoothing for unmanned air vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 471-477

  Anderson, Erik P ^a   Beard, Randal W ^b   McLain, Timothy W ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous systems; Optimal control; Path planning; Trajectory generation; Unmanned air vehicles (UAVs)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MOTION PLANNING; THEOREM PROVING; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VECTORS;

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; TRAJECTORY GENERATION; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES (UAVS);

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 18844435943     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2004.839555     Document Type: Article

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