Development of a real-time onboard and ground station software system for a UAV helicopter

Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 933-955

  Dong, Miaobo ^a,b   Chen, Ben M ^a,b   Cai, Guowei ^a,b   Peng, Kemao ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*

^c Temasek Laboratories

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VISUAL SERVOING;

EMBEDDED COMPUTERS; SERVO DRIVING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV) HELICOPTERS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 34548206751     PISSN: 15429423     EISSN: 15429423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.26408     Document Type: Article

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