path planning

Path Planning and Energy Management of Hybrid Air Vehicles for Urban Air Mobility

A novel coupled path planning and energy management problem for a hybrid unmanned air vehicle is considered, where the hybrid vehicle is powered by a dual gas/electric system. Such an aerial robot is envisioned for use in an urban setting where noise …

An Optimal Engagement Zone Avoidance Scenario in 2-D

In this paper, an optimal control problem is considered where a target vehicle aims to reach a desired location in minimum time while avoiding a dynamic engagement zone. Using simple motion, four potential approaches are considered. First, the …

Trajectory Optimization For Rendezvous Planning Using Quadratic Bézier Curves

In this paper, we consider a trajectory planning problem where an autonomous vehicle aims to rendezvous with another cooperating vehicle in minimum time. The first vehicle has kinematic constraints, consequently feasible trajectories must have a …

Quadratic Bezier Curves for Multi-Agent Coordinated Arrival in the Presence of Obstaclesdratic

We consider a multiple vehicle path planning problem with curvature constraints in the presence of obstacles, where multiple vehicles need to arrive at a given final location simultaneously. We aim to find the paths using a simplex framework that …