Guidance and Control of Unmanned Vehicles

Guidance and Control of Unmanned Vehicles demonstrates how the developed guidance laws for UAVs can be applied to a wide class of unmanned vehicles, including aerial, ground, water, and underwater vehicles. Drawing upon the author's innovative approach, this new edition presents a rigorous theory of guidance based on the parallel navigation rule and formulates an expanded guidance problem and guidance laws that can be applied to all unmanned vehicles. It includes a new chapter on the role of unmanned vehicle operators. The book also discusses the obstacle avoidance problem for unmanned vehicles and avoidance algorithms. Readers will learn how to choose optimal parameters of guidance laws based on the Lyapunov-Bellman approach. Industry researchers, practicing engineers, and operators working on the design and performance of various unmanned vehicles will benefit from the new research in this book. It can also serve as a basis for several graduate courses in the fields of mechanical, aerospace, electrical, and computer engineering.