Autonomous UAV concept for titanic missions

Annual Forum Proceedings - American Helicopter Society

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1988-2006

  Wu, Chivey ^a,b   Ofoma, Uche ^a   He, Chunlei ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dept of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDING OPERATIONS; TITAN AERIAL VEHICLE (TAV); TITANIC MISSIONS; VEHICLE CONFIGURATION;

AIRCRAFT PROPELLERS; CATAPULTS (AIRCRAFT LAUNCHERS); FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FUSELAGES; MAPPING; MOON; PARACHUTES; PLANETARY LANDERS; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; TAKEOFF;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 4143099177     PISSN: 07334249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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