Flight demonstrations of self-directed collaborative navigation of small unmanned aircraft

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA 3rd "Unmanned-Unlimited" Technical Conference, Workshop, and Exhibit

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1108-1121

  Frew, Eric W ^a,c   Xiao, Xiao ^b,d   Spry, Stephen ^b,d   McGee, Tim ^b,d   Kim, Zu Whan ^b,e   Tisdale, Jack ^b,d   Sengupta, Raja ^b,f   Hedrick, J Karl ^b,d  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Aerospace Engineering Sciences   (United States)

^d 149 Durham Hall   (United States)

^e NC A and T SU   (United States)

^f Civil and Environmental Engineering Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GROUND VEHICLES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NAVIGATION; SENSORS;

COLLABORATIVE NAVIGATION; FLIGHT DEMONSTRATIONS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); UNMANNED AIRCRAFT;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 19644388318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2004-6608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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