Design and Implementation of a mission planner for Multiple UCAVs in a SEAD mission

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

Volumn 8, Issue , 2005, Pages 6398-6407

  Vandermeersch, B R R ^a,c   Chu, Q P ^a,c   Mulder, J A ^a,c   Selier, M ^b,d  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NLR   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d NLR   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; MISSILES; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; SPACE SURVEILLANCE; TRAJECTORIES;

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY; MISSION PLANNERS; NETWORK FLOW PROGRAMMING; TRAJECTORY GENERATION;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 29744447940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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