Optimal path planning for unmanned combat aerial vehicles to defeat radar tracking

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 279-288

  Kabamba, Pierre T ^a,b   Meerkov, Semyon M ^a,b   Zeitz III, Frederick H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MISSILES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR TRACKING;

AIRCRAFT DYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT LATERAL ACCELERATION; GUIDED SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILES; UNMANNED COMBAT AERIAL VEHICLES (UCAVS);

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 33645564573     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.14303     Document Type: Article

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