scholarly journals Design of Three-Dimensional Path Following Guidance Logic

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sungsu Park
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulations ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Path Following ◽  
Guidance Law ◽  
Virtual Target ◽  
Projection Point ◽  
Motion Strategy

This paper presents a three-dimensional path following guidance logic. The proposed guidance logic is composed of the guidance law and the motion strategy of virtual target along the desired path. The guidance law makes a vehicle purse the virtual target, and the motion strategy explicitly specifies the motion of virtual target by introducing the concept of the projection point and the tangentially receding distance. The proposed logic is simple and efficient and yet provides precise path following. Numerical simulations are performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed guidance logic.

scholarly journals A Three-Dimensional Guidance Logic for Continuous Curvature Path Following

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Sungsu Park
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulations ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Path Following ◽  
Guidance Law ◽  
Virtual Target ◽  
Practical Guidance ◽  
Continuous Curvature ◽  
Projection Point ◽  
Three Dimensional Space

A new simple and practical guidance logic is proposed for a vehicle to follow a general continuous curvature path defined in a three-dimensional space. The proposed guidance logic is formulated in such a way that the guidance law is to generate the command acceleration such that a vehicle pursues the designed moving virtual target, and this eventually makes a vehicle to follow a desired path. The position and velocity of the virtual target are specified explicitly by introducing the concept of the projection point and the tangentially receding distance. Numerical simulations are conducted to evaluate the precise path-following capability of the proposed guidance logic.

scholarly journals Optimal Path-Following Guidance with Generalized Weighting Functions Based on Indirect Gauss Pseudospectral Method

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Chen ◽  
Xugang Wang ◽  
Jing Yang
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Optimal Path ◽  
Pseudospectral Method ◽  
Path Following ◽  
Control Cost ◽  
Weighting Functions ◽  
Guidance Law ◽  
Computational Performance ◽  
Gauss Pseudospectral Method ◽  
Virtual Target

An indirect Gauss pseudospectral method based path-following guidance law is presented in this paper. A virtual target moving along the desired path with explicitly specified speed is introduced to formulate the guidance problem. By establishing a virtual target-fixed coordinate system, the path-following guidance is transformed into a terminal guidance with impact angle constraints, which is then solved by using indirect Gauss pseudospectral method. Meanwhile, the acceleration dynamics are modeled as the first-order lag to the command. Using the receding horizon technique a closed-loop guidance law, which considers generalized weighting functions (even discontinuous) of both the states and the control cost, is derived. The accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed guidance law are validated by numerical comparisons. A STM32 Nucleo board based on the ARM Cortex-M7 processor is used to evaluate the real-time computational performance of the proposed indirect Gauss pseudospectral method. Simulations for various types of desired paths are presented to show that the proposed guidance law has better performance when compared with the existing results for pure pursuit, a nonlinear guidance law, and trajectory shaping path-following guidance and provides more degrees of freedom in path-following guidance design applications.

Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Differential Geometric Path-Following Guidance Law

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 2366-2385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Namhoon Cho ◽  
Youdan Kim ◽  
Sanghyuk Park
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Path Following ◽  
Guidance Law

Nested Saturation Based Guidance Law for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles1

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Patrikar ◽  
Venkata Ramana Makkapati ◽  
Anay Pattanaik ◽  
Hardik Parwana ◽  
Mangal Kothari
Keyword(s):  
Input Saturation ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Path Following ◽  
Lyapunov Theory ◽  
Vehicle Speed ◽  
External Disturbances ◽  
Guidance Law ◽  
Planar Spaces ◽  
3D Environments ◽  
Straight Lines

Abstract In this paper, using the theory of input saturation, a novel path following guidance law for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is developed. The proposed guidance law is adapted from a pursuit plus line-of-sight guidance law. Furthermore, it employs inertial speed for computing the acceleration commands which adds an adaptive capability of accommodating vehicle speed changes due to external disturbances such as wind. The guidance law is initially developed for two-dimensional (2D) environments which enables vehicles to follow straight lines, circles, and ellipses in planar spaces. Lyapunov theory is used to establish its stability properties, followed by a comparative study with existing algorithms, proposed for 2D environments, to establish its efficacy. The guidance law is then extended for the case of three-dimensional (3D) environments, and appropriate simulation studies are performed. Finally, real-world flight tests for 2D as well as 3D cases are presented, establishing the applicability of the proposed law on UAVs.

scholarly journals Impact Angle Control Guidance to Intercept Moving Targets by Virtual Target Technique

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Libing Hou ◽  
Jihong Zhu ◽  
Minchi Kuang ◽  
Heng Shi
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulations ◽  
Pid Controller ◽  
Impact Angle ◽  
Lateral Acceleration ◽  
Stable Theory ◽  
Moving Targets ◽  
Guidance Law ◽  
Flight Path Angle ◽  
Virtual Target ◽  
The Impact

To solve the problem regarding the impact angle of the missile, this paper proposes a novel guidance law, which can control the missile to hit the target at the desired angle. The key of the guidance law is selecting a moving point on the collision line as the virtual target, and the tactical requirements can be fulfilled by the missile directly pursuing the virtual target. The Lyapunov stable theory is used to prove the convergence of the proposed guidance law. The guidance command is generated by a PID controller to make the missile towards the virtual target. The proposed guidance law makes the lateral acceleration of the missile converge to zero, which leads the angle of attack to zero, and it theoretically guarantees the flight path angle equals the attitude angle. Numerical simulations demonstrate this impact angle control guidance law is very accurate and robust. Regardless of whether the initial heading error is large or small, the missile which employs the proposed guidance law can always hit the target from the preset direction and the guidance process is smooth.

A non-overshooting controller for vehicle path following

2021 ◽  
pp. 014233122199438
Author(s):  
Tong Xu ◽  
Dong Wang ◽  
Weigong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiments ◽  
Fitness Function ◽  
Path Following ◽  
Settling Time ◽  
Distribution Model ◽  
Positioning Errors ◽  
Guidance Law ◽  
Initial Control ◽  
Vehicle Path ◽  
Pavement Construction

Unmanned pavement construction is of great significance in China, and one of the most important issues is how to follow the designed path near the boundary of the pavement construction area to avoid curbs or railings. In this paper, we raise a simple yet effective controller, named the proportional-integral-radius and improved particle swarm optimization (PIR-IPSO) controller, for fast non-overshooting path-following control of an unmanned articulated vehicle (UAV). Firstly, UAV kinematics model is introduced and segmented UAV steering dynamics model is built through field experiments; then, the raw data collected by differential global positioning system (DGPS) is used to build the measurement error distribution model that simulates positioning errors. Next, line of sight (LOS) guidance law is introduced and the LOS initial parameter is assigned based on human driving behavior. Besides, the initial control parameters tuned by the Ziegler-Nichols (ZN) method are used as the initial iterative parameters of the PSO controller. An improved PSO fitness function is also designed to achieve fast non-overshoot control performance. Experiments show that compared with the PSO, ZN and ZN-PSO controller, the PIR-PSO-based controller has significantly less settling time and almost no overshoot in various UAV initial states. Furthermore, compared with other controllers, the proposed PIR-IPSO-based controller achieves precise non-overshoot control, relatively less settling time and centimeter-level positioning error in various initial deviations.

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