Reactionary automatic envelope protection for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 298-315

  Unnikrishnan, Suraj ^a   Prasad, J V R ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VECTORS;

ENVELOPE PROTECTION; LINEAR DYNAMICS; SOFTWARE-IN-THE-LOOP (SITL); UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 19644384002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2004-4819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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