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Virtual Motion Camouflage Based Nonlinear Constrained Optimal Trajectory Design Method, Gareth Basset
Virtual Motion Camouflage Based Nonlinear Constrained Optimal Trajectory Design Method, Gareth Basset
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Nonlinear constrained optimal trajectory control is an important and fundamental area of research that continues to advance in numerous fields. Many attempts have been made to present new methods that can solve for optimal trajectories more efficiently or to improve the overall performance of existing techniques. This research presents a recently developed bio-inspired method called the Virtual Motion Camouflage (VMC) method that offers a means of quickly finding, within a defined but varying search space, the optimal trajectory that is equal or close to the optimal solution. The research starts with the polynomial-based VMC method, which works within a search …