Dubins airplane paths with asymmetric climb rate constraints - #1470
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Add minimum pitch angle Add visualization scripts for asymmetric Dubins Airplane Nan values Add min and max pitch values F Cleanup
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Pinging @Jaeyoung-Lim. Did you see my accounts? They should be easy to address. |
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@mamoll Thanks for the review, apologies for the late reply. I have addressed the comments! I have removed the asymmetric Dubins example as it was some debug code I wrote to test the PR out. |
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Problem Description
The Dubins airplane assumes that the flight path angle for climbing and descending is identical.
However, for real fixed-wing vehicles this is not the case, as the maximum climb rate depends on the specific excess power, and the minimum climb rate (max descend rate) depends on specific drag of the aircraft. Typically, the smaller absolute value is chosen to keep the Dubins airplane paths feasible.
Solution
This PR sepearates the min and max pitch constraints of the OwenStateSpace such that seperate values can be sued for climbing and descending.
We could show the added feasibility of using higher climb rate constraints resulted in faster solve times for low altitude terrain navigation tasks.
Additional Context
More detail can be found in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15863