28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-11.7.1


AN INNOVATIVE MISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR FIXED-WING UAVS

L. De Filippis, G. Guglieri, F. Quagliotti
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Keywords: path planning, collision avoidance, kinematic a*, model predictive control, genetic algorithms

An innovative mission management system for unmanned aircrafts is presented. The system is made up with a 3-D path planner based on a new graph search algorithm (Kinematic A*) and a model predictive navigation system, which optimizes with a micro-genetic algorithm the reference signal for the flight control system.


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