Increasing UAV capabilities through autopilot and flight plan abstraction

AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Santamaria, Eduard ^a   Royo, Pablo ^a   Lopez, Juan ^a   Barrado, Cristina ^a   Pastor, Enric ^a   Prats, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIONICS SUBSYSTEMS; DIGITAL AVIONICS; DISTRIBUTED HARDWARE; FLIGHT CONTROLS; FLIGHT PLAN MANAGER (FPM); FLIGHT PLANNING; HIGHER LEVEL CONSTRUCTS; ON CURRENT (ION); PUBLISH SUBSCRIBE; SERVICE BASED; WAYPOINTS;

AVIONICS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MECHANISMS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRAJECTORIES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 48349133335     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DASC.2007.4391935     Document Type: Conference Paper

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