Intelligent control systems and vision based navigation to enable autonomous aerial refueling of UAVs

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 118, Issue , 2004, Pages 113-131

  Valasek, John ^a   Junkins, John L ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AERIAL REFUELING (AAR); REFUELING SYSTEMS; ROBUST TECHNOLOGY; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES (UAV);

AIRCRAFT FUELING; AIRCRAFT FUELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSORS; TURBULENCE;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 23744452911     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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