On-Board Near Optimal Flight Trajectory Generation using Deferential Flatness

On-Board Near Optimal Flight Trajectory Generation using Deferential Flatness

An optimal explicit guidance law that maximizes terminal velocity is developed for a reentry vehicle to a fixed target. The equations of motion are reduced with differential flatness approach and acceleration commands are related to trajectory's parameters. An optimal trajectory is determined by solving a real-coded genetic algorithm. For online trajectory generation, optimal trajectory is...

On-Board Near Optimal Flight Trajectory Generation using Deferential Flatness

An optimal explicit guidance law that maximizes terminal velocity is developed for a reentry vehicle to a fixed target. The equations of motion are reduced with differential flatness approach and acceleration commands are related to trajectory’s parameters. An optimal trajectory is determined by solving a real-coded genetic algorithm. For online trajectory generation, optimal trajectory is appr...

Midcourse Trajectory Shaping for Air and Ballistic Defence Guidance Using Bezier Curves

A near-optimal midcourse trajectory shaping guidance algorithm is proposed for both air and ballistic target engagement mission attributes for generic long range interceptor missile. This guidance methodology is based on the maximum final velocity as the objective function and maximum permissible flight altitude as the in-flight state constraint as well as the head-on orientation as the termina...

Fast Graph-Search Algorithms for General Aviation Flight Trajectory Generation

We consider numerical algorithms for on-board flight trajectory generation and optimization in three dimensional space. Our approach relies on graph search algorithms, which perform a global search over the set of feasible trajectories. We start by formulating a simplified kinematic model that is appropriate for General Aviation aircraft. The cost function to be optimized includes, the cost fun...

Near - Optimal Tunning of Linear Controllers Based on Genetic Algorithm and Swarm Intelligence: A Flight Control Example