Modeling and hardware-in-the-loop simulation for a small unmanned aerial vehicle

Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 581-593

  Jung, Dongwon ^a,b,c   Tsiotras, Panagiotis ^a,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT MODELS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

AERODYNAMIC DERIVATIVES; DIGITAL DATCOM SOFTWARE; FLIGHT TEST DATA; HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATION;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 35648981907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-2768     Document Type: Conference Paper

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