Automated multiple UAV flight - The Stanford DragonFly UAV program

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 4268-4273

  Teo, Rodney ^a   Jang, Jung Soon ^a   Tomlin, Claire J ^a  

^a Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial for Computational and Mathematical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; AVIONICS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

CLOSELY SPACED PARALLEL APPROACHES (CSPA); CONTROL INPUT LIMITING ALGORITHMS (CILA); EMERGENCY ESCAPE MANEUVER (EEM); UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 14244260112     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2004.1429422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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