Engineering safety and reliability into UAV systems: Mitigating the ground impact hazard

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1796-1807

  Bhamidipati, Keerti K ^a,b,c   Uhlig, Daniel ^a,b,c   Neogi, Natasha ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND IMPACT HAZARD; SAFETY SPECIFICATIONS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 37249025630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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