Inspection path planning for aerial vehicles via sampling-based sequential optimization

L Shi, G Mehrooz, RH Jacobsen - … International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) commonly called drones are gaining interest for
infrastructure inspection due to their ability to automize and monitor large areas more …

Learning-based warm-starting for fast sequential convex programming and trajectory optimization

S Banerjee, T Lew, R Bonalli… - 2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sequential convex programming (SCP) has recently emerged as an effective tool to quickly
compute locally optimal trajectories for robotic and aerospace systems alike, even when …

[HTML][HTML] Safe flight corridor constrained sequential convex programming for efficient trajectory generation of fixed-wing UAVs

SUN **g, XU Guangtong, W Zhu, L Teng… - Chinese Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Generating dynamically feasible trajectory for fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
in dense obstacle environments remains computationally intractable. This paper proposes a …

Generalized shape expansion-based motion planning in three-dimensional obstacle-cluttered environment

VV Zinage, S Ghosh - Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
THANKS to the advance in communications, control, and actua-tion, massive improvement
in technology of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has taken place in the last two decades …

An efficient motion planning algorithm for uavs in obstacle-cluttered environment

V Zinage, S Ghosh - 2019 American Control Conference (ACC), 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel algorithm is presented in this paper for motion planning of an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) from a start position to a goal position in a two-dimensional environment …

Trajectory Planning of Spacecraft Swarm Reconfiguration Using Reachable Set-based Collision Constraints

B Cui, X Chen, R Chai, Y **a… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents the reachable set (RS)-based trajectory planning algorithm for spacecraft
swarm reconfiguration with collision avoidance and fuel-effective consumption. To generate …

[PDF][PDF] Distributed fast motion planning for spacecraft swarms in cluttered environments using spherical expansions and sequence of convex optimization problems

S Bandyopadhyay, F Baldini, R Foust… - Proc. 9th International …, 2017 - academia.edu
This paper presents a novel guidance algorithm for spacecraft swarms in an environment
cluttered with many obstacles like a debris field or the asteroid belt. The objective of this …

Directional sampling-based generalized shape expansion for accelerated motion planning in 2-d obstacle-cluttered environments

V Zinage, S Ghosh - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently proposed Generalized Shape Expansion (GSE) algorithm for planning of shortest
collision-free path in 2-D environments has shown significant promise in improvement of its …

Simultaneous Motion Replanning and Gravity Model Refinement near Small Solar System Bodies

AS Paul, M Otte - Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
Strategic missions to orbit celestial bodies have primarily considered spacecraft trajectories
as a two-step process: capture of the spacecraft within the gravitational influence of the …

Translational and rotational motion planning for spacecraft close proximity using sampling-based methods

D Zhou, Z Yu, Y Zhang, S Li - Proceedings of the Institution of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
For autonomous spacecraft close proximity under environments containing multiple
obstacles and complicated constraints, incrementally rapid planning approaches stemming …