Bearings-only guidance of a unicycle-like vehicle following a moving target with a smaller minimum turning radius

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2390-2395

  Savkin, Andrey V ^a   Teimoori, Hamid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bearings only guidance; target surveillance; target tracking; unicycle like vehicles

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS ONLY; GUIDANCE LAWS; MOVING TARGETS; RIGOROUS ANALYSIS; TARGET SURVEILLANCE; TECHNICAL NOTES; TURNING RADIUS; UNICYCLE-LIKE VEHICLES;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); TARGET TRACKING;

MANEUVERABILITY;

EID: 77957714205     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2057150     Document Type: Article

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