UAVs Trajectory Planning by Distributed MPC under Radio Communication Path Loss Constraints

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 115-134

  Grancharova, Alexandra ^a,b   Grøtli, Esten Ingar ^c,d   Ho, Dac Tu ^c,e   Johansen, Tor Arne ^c  

^a BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METALLURGY   (Bulgaria)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

^e SINTEF OCEAN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; Constraints; Distributed control; Multi vehicle coordination; Predictive control; Radio communication; Trajectory planning

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; RADIO; TRAJECTORIES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; CONSTRAINTS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; MULTI-VEHICLE COORDINATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; TRAJECTORY PLANNING;

RADIO COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84930473855     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-014-0090-1     Document Type: Article

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