A method of autonomous flight path planning for a group of cooperating aircraft operating in formation includes: receiving information related to obstructions that interfere with an aircraft of the group continuing on a flight path; calculating a velocity obstacle for each obstruction; calculating a plurality of candidate velocities outside of the velocity obstacles; selecting a first velocity from the candidate velocities and operating a leader of the group at the first velocity; calculating, based upon keeping a follower aircraft in formation, a second velocity for the follower; determining whether the second velocity is inside one of the velocity obstacles; operating the follower at the second velocity when the second velocity is outside the velocity obstacles; and calculating a revised velocity that is outside of the velocity obstacles and operating the follower at the revised velocity when the second velocity is inside one of the velocity obstacles.
PATH PLANNING FOR COOPERATED AIR VEHICLES
06.01.2022
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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