Intelligent Management Control for Unmanned Aircraft Navigation and Formation Keeping

Abstract

The paper presents some aspects that have become critical in the context of guidance navigation and control of unmanned aerial vehicles. The envisioned cost-effectiveness of unmanned air vehicles in support of a variety of military and civilian applications has introduced basic and applied research challenges in areas such as levels of autonomy and "intelligence" of the platform. interaction with manned control centers. reliability and safety of operations. and control management of single vehicle. as well as formation flights. The paper addresses issues such as dynamic modeling. formation management and control. and guidance aspects. Their origin and potential solutions are presented with particular attention to flexible formation keeping.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA485071

Entities

People

  • F. Giulietti
  • L. Pollini
  • M. Innocenti

Organizations

  • University of Pisa

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospace Craft
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Automatic Pilots
  • Autonomous Guidance
  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Control Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Geometry
  • Guidance
  • Navigation
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction