Derivation of formation-flight guidance laws for unmanned air vehicles

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 733-742

  Segal, Shay ^a,b   Ben Asher, Joseph Z ^a,b   Weiss, Haim ^a,b,c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Faculty of Aerospace Engineering   (Israel)

^c RAFAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ANGLE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POSITION CONTROL; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ANGULAR VELOCITY; FLIGHT GUIDANCE LAWS; PATH ANGLES; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES (UAV);

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 22944447183     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.7420     Document Type: Article

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