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Methods and apparatus for providing path planning for a guided munition. In one embodiment, a boundary value problem solver is used to guide the munition from one configuration to another configuration at a different altitude using a waypoint-based search tree where a number of leaves grows linearly

Methods and apparatus for providing path planning for a guided munition. In one embodiment, a boundary value problem solver is used to guide the munition from one configuration to another configuration at a different altitude using a waypoint-based search tree where a number of leaves grows linearly with the depth of the tree.

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What is claimed is: 1. A method, comprising:(a) planning a path to a target for an airborne guided munition, comprising:(b) initiating a search tree;(c) selecting an aimpoint using waypoint information to generate a branch of the search tree for a potential path to the target;(d) performing two poin

What is claimed is: 1. A method, comprising:(a) planning a path to a target for an airborne guided munition, comprising:(b) initiating a search tree;(c) selecting an aimpoint using waypoint information to generate a branch of the search tree for a potential path to the target;(d) performing two point boundary value processing for the aimpoint to generate the branch;(e) determining whether a violation occurs for the branch;(f) adding the branch to the search tree if the violation did not occur;(g) repeating steps (c)-(f) to form feasible paths to the target from the formed branches; and(h) selecting a first one of the feasible paths.