The work herein presents a new approach to aircraft control within a leader-follower formation, and the refinement process used in its development. During autonomous flight, a follower aircraft is tasked to rejoin and maintain a designated formation …
The specific objective of this paper is to develop a tool that calculates the optimal trajectory of the follower aircraft as it completes a formation rejoin, and then maintains the formation position, defined as a ring of points, until a fixed final …
In this paper, the interception of a target vehicle is presented utilizing a Bézier path. Utilizing the Bézier path, the controlled vehicle is navigated from an initial point and velocity vector to a desired target waypoint and velocity vector. To …