Engineless unmanned aerial vehicle propulsion by dynamic soaring

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1446-1457

  Deittert, Markus ^a,c   Toomer, C A ^b,d   Richards, Arthur ^a   Pipe, Anthony ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c BRISTOL ROBOTICS LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPULSION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WIND;

AIR-SEA INTERFACE; DIFFERENTIAL FLATNESS; DYNAMIC SOARING; OPTIMAL TRAJECTORIES; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND STRENGTH;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 72149112751     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.43270     Document Type: Article

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