Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Cooperative Beam-Rider Guidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Rendezvous

Cooperative Beam-Rider Guidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Rendezvous The problem of aerial rendezvous of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is considered. Beam rider approach, wherein the follower moves along a beam directed from a ground-based tracker onto the leader is proposed as a guidance strategy. Analytic guarantee for a resulting rendezvous between two same speed vehicles is derived from the line-of-sight guidance principles. Considering an approximate variation of the follower look-ahead angle, closed-form expressions are derived for time-to-rendezvous and follower lateral acceleration. Cooperative maneuvers are proposed for the leader minimizing the rendezvous engagement time. Guidance models are extended to 3D engagements and efficacy of the proposed method is demonstrated by extensive 2D and 3D simulations. Simulation results are presented complying with the analytic findings. Robustness of the proposed approach is verified against uncompensated autopilot delays, non-identical initial speeds, and wind. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems Springer Journals

Cooperative Beam-Rider Guidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Rendezvous

Download PDF
15 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer_journal/cooperative-beam-rider-guidance-for-unmanned-aerial-vehicle-rendezvous-y1bwjsJ2q4
Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2018 by Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature
Subject
Engineering; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Electrical Engineering; Artificial Intelligence; Mechanical Engineering
ISSN
0921-0296
eISSN
1573-0409
DOI
10.1007/s10846-018-0873-x
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

The problem of aerial rendezvous of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is considered. Beam rider approach, wherein the follower moves along a beam directed from a ground-based tracker onto the leader is proposed as a guidance strategy. Analytic guarantee for a resulting rendezvous between two same speed vehicles is derived from the line-of-sight guidance principles. Considering an approximate variation of the follower look-ahead angle, closed-form expressions are derived for time-to-rendezvous and follower lateral acceleration. Cooperative maneuvers are proposed for the leader minimizing the rendezvous engagement time. Guidance models are extended to 3D engagements and efficacy of the proposed method is demonstrated by extensive 2D and 3D simulations. Simulation results are presented complying with the analytic findings. Robustness of the proposed approach is verified against uncompensated autopilot delays, non-identical initial speeds, and wind.

Journal

Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems – Springer Journals

Published: May 29, 2018

References

  • Micro air vehicles for optical surveillance
    William, RD; Bernard, BK; Don, MB; Daniel, FK
  • Decentralised standoff tracking of moving targets using adaptive sliding mode control for UAVs
    Oh, H; Kim, S; Tsourdos, A; White, BA
  • Multiple UAV coalitions for a search and prosecute mission
    Manathara, JoelG; Sujit, PB; Beard, RW
  • Robust rendezvous for mobile autonomous agents via proximity graphs in arbitrary dimensions
    Cortes, J; Martinez, S; Bullo, F
  • Finite-time rendezvous algorithms for mobile autonomous agents
    Hui, Q
  • The multi-agent rendezvous problem. part 2: the asynchronous case
    Lin, J; Morse, AS; Anderson, BDO
  • On the rendezvous problem for multiple nonholonomic agents
    Dimarogonas, DV; Kyriakopoulos, KJ
  • Consensus problems in networks of agents with double-integrator dynamics and time-varying delays
    Sun, YG; Wang, L
  • Event-based consensus of multi-agent systems with general linear models
    Zhu, W; Jiang, ZP; Feng, G
  • Optimal scheduling for refueling multiple autonomous aerial vehicles
    Jin, Z; Shima, T; Schumacher, CJ
  • Rendezvous and standoff target tracking guidance using differential geometry
    Oh, H; Kim, S; Shin, HS; White, BA; Tsourdos, A; Rabbath, CA
  • Toward optimal rendezvous of multiple underwater gliders: 3D path planning with combined sawtooth and spiral motion
    Cao, J; Zeng, Z; Yao, B; Lian, L
  • Rendezvous of multiple UAVs with collision avoidance using consensus
    Manathara, JG; Ghose, D
  • Impact angle constrained interception of nonstationary nonmaneuvering targets
    Ratnoo, A; Ghose, D
  • Indirect impact-angle-control against stationary targets using biased pure proportional navigation
    Erer, KS; Merttopcuoglu, O
  • Proportional navigation with adaptive terminal guidance for aircraft rendezvous
    Smith, AL
  • Sliding mode-based pure pursuit guidance for unmanned aerial vehicle rendezvous and chase with a cooperative aircraft
    Yamasaki, T; Balakrishnan, SN
  • Simulation environment for machine vision based aerial refueling for UAVs
    Campa, G; Napolitano, MR; Fravolini, ML
  • Variable deviated pursuit for rendezvous guidance
    Ratnoo, A
  • Design of a CLOS guidance law via feedback linearization
    Ha, IJ; Chong, S
  • Line of sight interceptor guidance for defending an aircraft
    Ratnoo, A; Shima, T
  • Modified command to line-of-sight intercept guidance for aircraft defense
    Yamasaki, T; Balakrishnan, SN
  • Three-point guidance for intercepting weaving targets
    Ratnoo, A