Aeroelastic flight control for subscale UAVs

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 61-72

  Vos, Roelof ^a,c,d   Hodigere Siddaramaiah, Vijaya ^b   Cooper, Jonathan E ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c 2120 Learned Hall ^*  (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WIND TUNNELS; WINGS;

AEROELASTIC FLIGHT CONTROL; AEROELASTIC WING PANELS; FLIGHT TESTS; STATIC AEROELASTIC MODELING;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547548530     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-1706     Document Type: Conference Paper

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