This paper generates a continuous curvature path for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to converge to a straight-line path using the Lyapunov Guidance Vector Field (LGVF) approach. Further, a waypoint following method that utilizes the straight line convergence algorithm along with a switching technique to transit between two consecutive waypoint segments to find a near time-optimal and smooth path has been presented. Numerical examples demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is better in comparison to the other well-performing algorithms existing in the literature and the corresponding results have been included.


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    Title :

    A Lyapunov Guidance Vector Field Based Continuous Curvature Path Generation for Waypoint Following of UAVs


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    Publication date :

    2021-06-15


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    1789056 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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