Lyapunov Guidance Vector Fields for Unmanned Aircraft Applications

This paper presents results implementing Lyapunov vector fields for the guidance of unmanned aircraft. The vector fields yield globally stable tracking of circular loiter patterns. These loiter patterns are used in several unmanned aircraft applications including hierarchical micro air vehicle contr...

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Published in2007 American Control Conference pp. 371 - 376
Main Authors Frew, E.W., Lawrence, D.A., Dixon, C., Elston, J., Pisano, W.J.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.07.2007
Subjects
Aerodynamics
Aircraft
Chemical sensors
Communication system control
Lifting equipment
Navigation
Target tracking
Turning
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Vehicle dynamics
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ISBN9781424409884
1424409888
ISSN0743-1619
DOI10.1109/ACC.2007.4282974

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Summary:This paper presents results implementing Lyapunov vector fields for the guidance of unmanned aircraft. The vector fields yield globally stable tracking of circular loiter patterns. These loiter patterns are used in several unmanned aircraft applications including hierarchical micro air vehicle control for cooperative plume tracking, extremum seeking for electronic chaining, and cooperative tracking of moving targets. Extensions of the basic LGVF approach are made for each application including: warping the circular pattern to form other closed orbit patterns; driving the center of the LGVF orbit using virtual dynamics; and spacing multiple unmanned aircraft around a circular orbit. Hardware-in-the- loop simulation results and flight data are given to validate performance.
ISBN:9781424409884
1424409888
ISSN:0743-1619
DOI:10.1109/ACC.2007.4282974