A class of flight trajectories for tracking ground targets with micro air vehicles

2007 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Beard, Randal W ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; AIRCRAFT; GROUND VEHICLES; IMAGE SENSORS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; ORBITS; SPEED; TARGETS; VEHICLES;

AVERAGE VELOCITY; CONTROL AND AUTOMATION; COUNTER-CLOCK-WISE; DIRECTION OF MOTION; FLIGHT TRAJECTORIES; GROUND BASED; GROUND SPEED; MICRO AIR VEHICLES; OPTIMAL SWITCHING; STRAIGHT LINES; TRACKING GROUND TARGETS;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 50249157604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2007.4433657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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