Vision-based autonomous probe and drogue aerial refueling

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mati, Roberto ^a   Pollini, Lorenzo ^a   Lunghi, Alessio ^a   Innocenti, Mario ^a   Campa, Giampiero ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES; DROGUE AERIAL REFUELING;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; RADIO COMMUNICATION; REMOTE CONTROL; ROBUST CONTROL;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 36049030694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2006.328794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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