Lyapunov and Minimum-Time Path Planning for Drones
Turning radius
Constant (computer programming)
DOI:
10.1007/s10883-014-9222-y
Publication Date:
2014-05-16T06:05:20Z
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ABSTRACT
In this paper, we study the problem of controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to provide a target supervision and/or to provide convoy protection to ground vehicles. We first present a control strategy based upon a Lyapunov-LaSalle stabilization method to provide supervision of a stationary target. The UAV is expected to join a predesigned admissible circular trajectory around the target which is itself a fixed point in the space. Our strategy is presented for both high altitude long endurance (HALE) and medium altitude long endurance (MALE) types of UAVs. A UAV flying at a constant altitude (HALE type) is modeled as a Dubins vehicle (i.e., a planar vehicle with constrained turning radiusand constant forward velocity). For a UAV that might change its altitude (MALE type), we use the general kinematic model of a rigid body evolving in ? 3 $\mathbb {R}^{3}$ . Both control strategies presented are smooth, and unlike what is usually proposed in the literature, these strategies asymptotically track a circular trajectory of exact minimum turning radius. We also present the time-optimal control synthesis for tracking a circle by a Dubins vehicle. This optimal strategy is very rich, although much simpler than the point-to-point time-optimal strategy studied in the 1990s. Finally, we propose control strategies to provide supervision of a moving target, which are based upon theprevious ones.
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