Development and testing of the intercept primitives for planar UAV engagement
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Authors
Ghosh, Satadal
Davis, Duane T.
Chung, Timothy H.
Yakimenko, Oleg A.
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2017-06
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IEEE
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Abstract
With the advance in technologies and applications involving unmanned aerial systems cooperation among the autonomous agents within such an unmanned system as well as preparedness for
responding to adversarial threat to such a system has become of pivotal importance. A multi-phase
operational scenario of such cooperative and adversarial engagement, motivated by manned aerial
engagement scenarios, is presented in this paper. A proportional navigation-based integrated
guidance methodology is proposed and investigated as a candidate strategy for intercept primitives
in such realistic multi-phase UAV engagements. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate
the performance of the proposed guidance strategy for an UAV in such an engagement. Finally,
implementation of these guidance laws in a waypoint-based manner, well suited for use in modern-day
autopilots of UAVs, is demonstrated in software-in-the-loop simulations, further accelerating
future live-fly capabilities for autonomous aerial engagements.
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Article
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Systems Engineering (SE)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER)
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8 p.
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S. Ghosh, D.T. David, T.H. Chung, O.A. Yakimenko, "Development and testing of the intercept primitives for planar UAV engagement," 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), June 13-16, 2017, Miami, Florida, pp. 286-293.
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