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15 - General Engineering
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Real-time path planning with limited information for autonomous unmanned air vehicles
Path planning for autonomous unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) in hostile environments with limited information is enormously challenging, theoretically and computationally. Practical real-time algorithms are presented, which provably converge and handle dynamic threats. The research was completed in the £6.5M project FLAVIIR, funded by BAE Systems and EPSRC (GR/S71552/01), to look at new technologies for future UAVs. Ten universities participated and Postlethwaite (with £418K) led the Control theme with Imperial. His work continued in the DTI/BAE Systems project ASTRAEA with the aim of making unmanned flight routine. The FLAVIIR project won the Engineer 2011 Technology and Innovation Award for Aerospace.