Path planning for targets in close proximity with a bounded turn-rate aircraft

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 3447-3455

  Caveney, Derek S ^a,b   Hedrick, J Karl ^a,b  

^a Center for Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; KINEMATICS; MOTION PLANNING; PROXIMITY SENSORS; SPACE SURVEILLANCE; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

KINEMATIC CONSTRAINTS; SURVEILLANCE AREA; SURVEILLANCE SENSORS; UAV;

AIRCRAFT MODELS;

EID: 29744456065     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-6185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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