A mobile landing platform for miniature vertical take-off and landing vehicles

14th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Dalamagkidis, K ^a   Ioannou, S ^a   Valavanis, K ^a   Stefanakos, E ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

ATRV jr; Gimbal; Landing platform; Photovoltaic; Solar; UGV; VTOL

Indexed keywords

GIMBALS; LANDING PLATFORMS; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE (UGV);

GROUND VEHICLES; LANDING; MACHINE DESIGN; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

EID: 35948974440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2006.328767     Document Type: Conference Paper

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