Optimal wind-assisted flight planning for planetary aerobots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 2542-2549

  Kämpke, Thomas ^a   Elfes, Alberto ^b  

^a Forschungsinst AW   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial planetary exploration; Aerobot; Autonomous airship; Flight trajectory optimization; Wind based flight planning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; NAVIGATION; OPTIMIZATION; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SAMPLING; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AERIAL PLANETARY EXPLORATION; AEROBOT; AUTONOMOUS AIRSHIP; FLIGHT TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION; WIND-BASED FLIGHT PLANNING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 3042627461     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307444     Document Type: Conference Paper

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