Adaptive aerostructures: Improving high performance subscale military UAVs

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 3989-3997

  Barren, R M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AIRCRAFT; BANDWIDTH; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; KINEMATICS; MANEUVERABILITY; SERVOMOTORS; TRANSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

ADAPTIVE AEROSTRUCTURES; FLIGHT CONDITIONS; KINEMATIC PREDICTION EQUATIONS; LAMINATED PLATE THEORY;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 16244396691     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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