Control law design for improving UAV performance using wind turbulence

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2798-2807

  Patel, Chinmay K ^a,b,c   Kroo, Ilan ^a,b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL LAWS; ENERGY EXTRACTION; POINT MASS MODEL; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; TURBULENCE; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 34250812038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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