Cooperative Path Planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Cooperative Path Planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is authored by leading researchers from Cranfield University and provides an authoritative resource for researchers, academics and engineers working in the area of cooperative systems, cooperative control and optimization particularly in the aerospace industry.

• Include chapters on path planning, 3-D path planning, cooperative path planning, path planning in complex environments as well as guidance for accurate path following and sense and avoid algorithms to deal with collision avoidance

• Approaches the solution to UAV path planning via two phases: producing paths to meet curvature constraints - the flyable paths, and then tuning the flyable paths to meet the mission demands

• Describes flyable path approaches using composite curves using Dubins and Clothoid principles, and continuous curves using Pythagorean Hodograph principles; and extends these approaches to cater for the complex problem of obstacle avoidance.