Optimal navigation in planar time-varying flow: Zermelo's problem revisited

Intelligent Service Robotics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 271-283

  Techy, Laszlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Optimal control; Pontryagin's minimum principle; Time varying flow; UUV navigation; Zermelo's problem

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS PROBLEMS; CONTROL PROBLEMS; FLIGHT VEHICLES; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; PONTRYAGIN'S MINIMUM PRINCIPLES; PRIMARY CONTRIBUTION; SCALAR PARAMETERS; STEERING ANGLES; TIME OPTIMAL TRAJECTORY; TIME VARYING; TIME-OPTIMAL; TIME-VARYING FLOW; VERTICAL VORTICITY; ZERMELO'S PROBLEM;

AUTOMOBILE STEERING EQUIPMENT; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; NAVIGATION; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; VORTICITY;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 80052952423     PISSN: 18612776     EISSN: 18612784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11370-011-0092-9     Document Type: Article

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