Flight test results of autonomous fixed-wing UAV transitions to and from stationary hover

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2006

Volumn 8, Issue , 2006, Pages 5144-5167

  Johnson, Eric N ^a,b   Turbe, Michael A ^a,b   Wu, Allen D ^a,b   Kannan, Suresh K ^a,c   Neidhoefer, James C ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Guided Systems Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROLLERS; AIRPLANE TRANSITIONS; FLIGHT TEST; HIGH SPEED STEADY FLIGHT;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; POSITION CONTROL; SPEED CONTROL;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 33845739729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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