Long distance/duration trajectory optimization for small UAVs

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2007

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 3654-3667

  Langelaan, Jack W ^a,b,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

DECISION-MAKING BLOCKS; UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV);

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 37249005768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-6737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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