Electronics Optics & Control, Volume. 32, Issue 1, 1(2025)

Energy-Efficient Trajectory Planning for Quadrotor UAVs: A Segmented Gaussian Pseudospectral Method

OUYANG Quan1... XU Luomin1, YANG Jiyang1, XUE Yali1, CONG Yuhua1 and LYU Jianwei2 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1College of Automatic Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210000, China
  • 2Beijing Institute of Control and Electronic Technology, Beijing 100000, China
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    OUYANG Quan, XU Luomin, YANG Jiyang, XUE Yali, CONG Yuhua, LYU Jianwei. Energy-Efficient Trajectory Planning for Quadrotor UAVs: A Segmented Gaussian Pseudospectral Method[J]. Electronics Optics & Control, 2025, 32(1): 1

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    Received: Jun. 4, 2024

    Accepted: Jan. 10, 2025

    Published Online: Jan. 10, 2025

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    DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1671-637x.2025.01.001

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