25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-6.3.2

ADAPTIVE NODE DISTRIBUTION FOR ON-LINE TRAJECTORY PLANNING

D. A. Anisi
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

Keywords: On-line trajectory planning, adaptive grid methods, missile guidance

Direct methods for trajectory optimization are traditionally based on a priori temporal discretization and collocation methods. In this work, the node distribution is formulated as an optimization problem, which is to be augmented with the underlying NLP. The benefits of the suggested approach are illustrated by a missile guidance example.

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