Near-earth unmanned aerial vehicles: Sensor suite testing and evaluation

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Narli, Vefa ^a   Oh, Paul Y ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRIC GENERATORS; END EFFECTORS; GANTRY CRANES; SENSORS; TEST FACILITIES;

SENSOR SUITE TESTING; TEST RIGS; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES (UAV);

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 33751319207     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2006-99614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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