Continuous local motion planning & control for micro-air-vehicles in complex environments

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Berry, Andrew J ^a,b   Howitt, Jeremy ^a,d   Gu, Da Wei ^b,e   Postlethwaite, Ian ^c  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Aerospace ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e Department of Engineering ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; CONTROL SPACES; DYNAMIC INTERACTION; FAST DYNAMICS; FEED-FORWARD; GUIDANCE AND CONTROL; LOCAL MOTIONS; POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS; QUADROTORS; REAL-TIME OPTIMIZATION; RECEDING HORIZON; RECEDING HORIZON CONTROL; SPACE DESIGN; TRACKING LOOP; TRAJECTORY DESIGNS; TRAJECTORY TRACKING;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN; TRAJECTORIES; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VEHICLE PERFORMANCE;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 79955778384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-7874     Document Type: Conference Paper

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