Experimental platforms for evaluating sensor technology for UAS collision avoidance

AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Maroney, David R ^a   Boiling, Robert H ^a   Heffron, Martin E ^a   Flathers, George W ^b  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Sparrow Tech Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL AVIONICS; EVALUATION PLATFORMS; FIELD EVALUATION; LESSONS LEARNED (LL); MEASURE DISTANCE; MULTI DIMENSIONAL; OF SENSORS; SENSOR COMBINATIONS; SENSOR PARAMETERS; SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES; TIME-TO-COLLISION (TTC); UNMANNED AIRCRAFT; WIDE-RANGE;

ACCIDENTS; AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS; AVIONICS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; SENSORS; SOLUTIONS; TRAJECTORIES;

DETECTORS;

EID: 48349125307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DASC.2007.4391936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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