Research Article

Vector Field-Based Guidance for Planar Smooth Path Following of a Small Unmanned Helicopter

Table 3

Comparison of the flight time of each route with the three methods.

MethodThe flight time of every section (s)
Route BCRoute CDRoute DARoute ABRoute BC

Vector field25.0625.2025.2625.2425.26
FC_PFC24.9625.2625.5425.2625.26
PD_PFC25.8426.1026.3826.1226.12