Application of Virtual Target based Guidance Laws to Path Following of a Quadrotor UAV

Manjunath, Abhishek and Mehrok, Parwinder and Sharma, Rajnikant and Ratnoo, Ashwini (2016) Application of Virtual Target based Guidance Laws to Path Following of a Quadrotor UAV. In: International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), JUN 07-10, 2016, Arlington, VA, pp. 252-260.

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Abstract

Two missile guidance laws viz. Pursuit Guidance (PG) and Trajectory Shaping (TS), have been adopted to aggressively follow curved, compact trajectories using a quadrotor. The concept of virtual target navigation has been utilized to generate the required curved trajectories. Simulations and flight tests have been performed using a quadrotor and the performance characteristics obtained have been compared with those obtained from Differential Flatness (DF) approach. The various simulation and flight results prove that TS generates smaller position errors and requires lower control effort in comparison to PG and DF.

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Series.:	International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Additional Information:	Copy right for this article belongs to the IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering)
Date Deposited:	09 Feb 2017 10:13
Last Modified:	09 Feb 2017 10:13
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/56199

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