Autonomous unmanned air vehicle flight control systems require robust path generation to
account for terrain obstructions, weather, and moving threats such as radar, jammers, and …

We present a real-time hardware-in-the-loop simulation environment for the validation of a
new hierarchical path planning and control algorithm for a small fixed-wing unmanned aerial …

The objective of this paper is to describe the design and implementation of a small
semiautonomous fixed-wing unmanned air vehicle. In particular we describe the hardware …

Autonomous path planning capability is a critical requirement for future unmanned vehicle
operations. This paper presents a novel path planning approach for rapid construction of …

This brief presents a real-time, feasible trajectory generation algorithm for unmanned air
vehicles (UAVs) flying through a sequence of waypoints. The algorithm produces extremal …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are mainly used by military and government
organizations, but with low-cost sensors, electronics, and airframes there is significant …

This paper presents a new approach to trajectory optimization for autonomous fixed-wing
aerial vehicles performing large-scale maneuvers. The main result is a planner which …

In this paper a novel combination of data structures and algorithms is presented as a fast
and efficient practical approach to path planning for unmanned vehicles. This approach …

We present a novel planning strategy which is applicable to high performance unmanned
aerial vehicles. The proposed approach takes as input a 3-D sequence of way-points …

A fundamental aspect of autonomous vehicle guidance is planning trajectories. Historically,
two fields have contributed to trajectory or motion planning methods: robotics and dynamics …