Highly Reactive, Real-Time Planner for Aggressive 3D Aircraft Maneuvers to Avoid Unguided Threats

Abstract

This paper presents a technique, Probabilistic Road Map (PRM) planning and its application to aircraft for rapidly generating routes using aggressive maneuvers to avoid incoming munitions, terrain, and other aircraft while trying to maintain other mission objectives. The technique was applied to a high fidelity simulation and shown to always generate correct routes within its 0.1 seconds deadline. Results are presented for several scenarios, some of which are quite complex. Future plans are also described.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA569886

Entities

People

  • Cory Barton
  • David Breeden
  • Richard Stottler

Organizations

  • Stottler Henke Associates

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aeronautics
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Astronautics
  • Control Systems
  • Flight Paths
  • Helicopters
  • Line Of Sight
  • Maneuvers
  • Rocket Propelled Grenades
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • Trajectories
  • Two Dimensional
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Robotics and Automation.