Design, fabrication and initial results of a 2g autonomous glider

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1870-1877

  Wood, R J ^a   Avadhanula, S ^a   Steltz, E ^a   Seeman, M ^a   Entwistle, J ^a   Bachrach, A ^a   Barrows, G ^b   Sanders, S ^a   Fearing, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Centeye Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS GLIDER; CANTILEVERS; HAZARDOUS OBSTACLES; PIEZOELECTRIC;

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; CORE ANALYSIS; DRAG; MICROOPTICS; SENSORS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 33749685010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2005.1569190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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