Exploring titan with autonomous, buoyancy driven gliders

JBIS - Journal British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-34

  Morrow, Michael T ^a   Woolsey, Craig A ^a   Hagerman, George M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV); Buoyancy driven glider; Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); Wing morphing, planetary exploration

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUV); BUOYANCY-DRIVEN; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; TERRAIN EXPLORATION; VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDINGS; WING CONFIGURATIONS;

BUOYANCY; GLIDERS; GRAVITATION; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; LONGITUDINAL CONTROL; SAMPLING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 29444450227     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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