Planar path planning for flight vehicles in wind with turn rate and acceleration bounds

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3240-3245

  Techy, Laszlo ^a   Woolsey, Craig A ^b   Morgansen, Kristi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT FLOW; AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; CONSTANT SPEED; FLIGHT VEHICLES; HORIZONTAL PLANES; INITIAL POINT; MINIMUM TIME; PATH-PLANNING; SIMPLE METHOD; SYMMETRIC CONSTRAINTS; TURN RATE; UNIFORM FLOW;

FLIGHT PATHS; VEHICLES;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955790581     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509862     Document Type: Conference Paper

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