Path planning and state estimation for unmanned aerial vehicles in hostile environments

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 595-601

  Dai, Ran ^a,b   Cochran Jr , John E ^a,c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c Dynamic Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CONTINUOUS CURVATURE; HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL INTEGRATION METHODS; POSITION COORDINATES; SCATTERED POINTS; VORONOI DIAGRAMS; VORONOI GRAPHS;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 77950467064     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.46323     Document Type: Article

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