Automated autorotation for unmanned rotorcraft recovery

AHS International Specialists' Meeting - Unmanned Rotorcraft: Design, Control and Testing, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 21-33

  Aponso, Bimal L ^a   Bachelder, Edward N ^a   Lee, Dongchan ^a  

^a SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT PITCH; DIRECT-COLLOCATION OPTIMIZATION METHOD; TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION METHOD; UNMANNED ROTORCRAFT;

ALGORITHMS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HELICOPTERS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 33644636561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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