Automated launch, recovery, and refueling for small unmanned aerial vehicles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5609, Issue , 2004, Pages 233-243

  Mullens, Katherine ^a   Burmeister, Aaron ^a   Wills, Mike ^a   Stroumtsos, Nicholas ^b   Denewiler, Thomas ^b   Thomas, Kari ^b   Stancliff, Stephen ^c  

^a Naval Command   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous; Refueling; Robotics; UAV; UGV; Unmanned aerial vehicle; Unmanned ground vehicle; Vertical take off and landing; VTOL

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS; REFUELING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES; VERTICLE TAKE-OFF AND LANDING; VTOL;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AUTOMOTIVE FUELS; GROUND VEHICLES; LANDING; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 17644405801     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.580140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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