A Feedback Guidance Strategy for an Autonomous Mini-air-vehicle
Geng Fen, Xiaoping Zhu · Journal of Projectiles.Rockets.Missiles and Guidance · 2006
The paper presents a guidance strategy to steer a Mini-air-vehicle (MAV) from a given initial position and heading to a specified destination way-point in an obstacle free environment. The strategy achieves perfect guidance at constant altitude and speed under continuous position and heading updates, and perfect tracking of turn rate commands inter waypoint distances. Simulations are used to study the performance of the guidance strategy under discrete position updates from GPS combined with either heading updates obtained from the GPS or heading estimates obtained from GPS position updates.