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UAV path following in windy urban environments

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Abstract

This paper considers UAV path following in cluttered environments under windy conditions. Unstructured wind patterns in cluttered environments can make path following difficult resulting in high errors and possibly collisions with buildings. Combining a pursuit guidance law philosophy with a line-of-sight guidance law, we develop a novel guidance law that has low computational complexity and can track straight line paths, circular paths, a combination of both and waypaths accurately in the presence of wind blowing as high as fifty percent of the UAV's air speed. Performance of the guidance law is demonstrated through numerical simulations. © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013.

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Author(s): Kothari M, Postlethwaite I, Gu D-W

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Year: 2014

Volume: 74

Issue: 3-4

Pages: 1013-1028

Print publication date: 01/06/2014

Online publication date: 24/08/2013

Acceptance date: 08/08/2013

ISSN (print): 0921-0296

ISSN (electronic): 1573-0409

Publisher: Springer

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-013-9873-z

DOI: 10.1007/s10846-013-9873-z

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