Autonomous aerial refueling for UAVs using a combined GPS-machine vision guidance

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 3125-3135

  Campa, Giampiero ^a   Fravolini, Mario Luca ^b   Ficola, Antonio ^b   Napolitano, Marcello R ^a   Seanor, Brad ^a   Perhinschi, Mario G ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PITCH ANGLE; ROLL ANGLE; STANDARD DEVIATION; YAW ANGLE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; CORRELATION METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 19944395881     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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