Performance and lyapunov stability of a nonlinear path-following guidance method

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1718-1728

  Park, Sanghyuk ^a,c   Deyst, John ^b,d   How, Jonathan P ^b,d  

^a BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Fly By Wire   (Canada)

^d Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TRACKING (POSITION); TWO TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CIRCULAR PATHS; PATH-FOLLOWING GUIDANCE METHOD; POSITION ERRORS; VEHICLE VELOCITY;

ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEMS;

EID: 36849023428     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.28957     Document Type: Article

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