Route Planner with Area Avoidance Capability

Abstract

A method for establishing a path from a launch point to a destination point that can include multiple way points while avoiding landmass areas. Launch points and destination points can lie outside or inside the particular landmass areas. The method includes steps for defining tangents path areas to be avoided, extending those tangents to define way points and testing the individual way points to assure conformance to various conditions and constraints. A subset of paths are optimized. The shortest of the optimized paths becomes a final path.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 05, 2001
Accession Number
ADD019961

Entities

People

  • Karen Benevides
  • Steven W. Tomasi

Organizations

  • United States Department of the Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Databases
  • Elimination
  • Flight
  • Flight Paths
  • Grids
  • Guidance
  • Heuristic Methods
  • Inventions
  • Latitude
  • Navigation
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Patents
  • Position Finding
  • United States
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Geodesy
  • Missile Defense Systems.