Vector Field Path Following for Miniature Air Vehicles

By Derek R. Nelson, D. B. Barber, Timothy W. McLain, R. Beard. IEEE Transactions on robotics, 2007

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Integral Line-of-Sight Guidance and Control of Underactuated Marine Vehicles: Theory, Simulations, and Experiments (2016, methodology): “The VF guidance from [100] performs course control rather then heading control and it hence requires an estimation of the side-slip angle to compensate for the current.”
Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Differential Geometric Path-Following Guidance Law (2015, background): “In the vector-field-based approach, a vector field designating the desired course angle or the desired velocity was constructed so that the vehicle could converge to the desired path along the vector field [39–44].”
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Path Following: A Survey and Analysis of Algorithms for Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicless (2014, methodology): “The main idea of this approach is that VFs indicate the direction of flow.”
Nonlinear Path Following Method (2010, methodology): “By contrast, the vector field method [7] determines a unique path to the circle.”