Extracting energy from downdraft to enhance endurance of uninhabited aerial vehicles

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1124-1133

  Zhao, Yiyuan J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; VEHICLE PERFORMANCE; VORTEX FLOW;

DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; NONLINEAR OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPERATIONAL LIMITS; OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEM; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 68049117116     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.42133     Document Type: Article

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