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This paper considers UAV path following in cluttered environments under windy conditions. Unstructured wind patterns in cluttered environments can make path following difficult resulting in high errors and possibly collisions with buildings. Combining a pursuit guidance law philosophy with a line-of-sight guidance law, we develop a novel guidance law that has low computational complexity and can track straight line paths, circular paths, a combination of both and waypaths accurately in the presence of wind blowing as high as fifty percent of the UAV’s air speed. Performance of the guidance law is demonstrated through numerical simulations.
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Kothari, M., Postlethwaite, I. & Gu, DW. UAV Path Following in Windy Urban Environments. J Intell Robot Syst 74, 1013–1028 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-013-9873-z
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