A Fast Prediction Method for the Target Reachable Zone of Boosting Gliding Vehicle Based on Database

Featured Application: The method proposed can be used for target reachable zone prediction of boosting gliding vehicle. This paper presents an effective method for the fast prediction of the target reachable zone of a boosting gliding vehicle in the gliding phase. Firstly, a six-point method is proposed for the rapid determination of the reachable zone and the feasible discrimination of the target. The method chooses six boundary points with notable features to characterize the reachable zone and considerably reduces the computational consumption. Furthermore, taking into account the need for a rapid launch and safety against unexpected events during the gliding phase, a database method for the prediction of the reachable zone is presented, which builds the database with time nodes and six boundary points and employs interpolation methods to calculate the reachable zone. The results suggest that online planning by the database method has significant potential for predicting the target reachable zone. The accuracy error is less than 1%, and the computational efficiency is increased by 90% when compared to the six-point approach.