Autonomous airborne refueling of unmanned air vehicles using the global positioning system

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1670-1682

  Khanafseh, Samer M ^a,b,c   Pervan, Boris ^a,b,c  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering Department

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT FUELING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SATELLITES;

AUTONOMOUS AIRBORNE REFUELING; REFUELING NAVIGATION;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 36348972500     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.28195     Document Type: Article

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