Tour planning for an unmanned air vehicle under wind conditions

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1299-1306

  McNeely, Rachelle L ^a,c   Iyer, Ram V ^a,c   Chandler, Phillip R ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Mathematics and Statistics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; WIND EFFECTS;

MINIMUM-TIME SOLUTION; STATE TRANSITIONS; TIME-VARYING WIND VECTOR;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 35348980727     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.26055     Document Type: Article

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