Design considerations for a low altitude long endurance solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle

IEEE AFRICON Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Meyer, J ^a,b   Du Plessis, J A F ^a,b   Ellis, P ^b   Clark, W ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Autonomous flight; Low altitude long endurance flight; Solar power; Unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; DESIGN AND BUILD; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; ELECTRICAL POWER; LOW ALTITUDE LONG ENDURANCE FLIGHT; LOW ALTITUDES; SIMULATION RESULTS; SOLAR POWER; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES;

DURABILITY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLES; WINGS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 48649083475     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AFRCON.2007.4401516     Document Type: Conference Paper

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