Pseudospectral optimal control: A clear road for autonomous intelligent path planning

Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1228-1241

  Bollino, Kevin P ^a,b   Lewis, L Ryan ^a   Sekhavat, Pooya ^a,b   Ross, I Michael ^a,b  

^a Naval Postgraduate School ^*  (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS INTELLIGENT PATH PLANNING; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; OPTIMAL CONTROL THEORY; PSEUDOSPECTRAL OPTIMAL CONTROL;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DECISION MAKING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MOTION PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 35649008380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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