Sampling-based path planning for a visual reconnaissance unmanned air vehicle

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 619-631

  Obermeyer, Karl J ^a,c   Oberlin, Paul ^b,d   Darbha, Swaroop ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dynamical Systems   (United States)

^d 521 Engineering Physics Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIXED WINGS; MOTION PLANNING; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CONTINUOUS STATE SPACE; ELECTRO-OPTICAL CAMERAS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PATH PLANNING PROBLEMS; RECONNAISSANCE MISSION; RESOLUTION COMPLETE; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLE (UAVS); VISUAL RECONNAISSANCE;

TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

EID: 84860384594     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.48949     Document Type: Article

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