A safe flight algorithm for unmanned aerial vehicles

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 3025-3030

  Rathinam, Sivakumar ^a   Sengupta, Raja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR LAUNCHERS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION ALGORITHMS; SAFE FLIGHT ALGORITHM; TRACKING RADARS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MOTION PLANNING; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 11244335698     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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