UAS flight simulation with hardware-in-the-loop testing and vision generation

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 57, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 407-415

  Saunders, Jeffery ^a   Beard, Randal ^a  

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

Author keywords

Flight simulation; Hardware in the loop; Matlab; Micro air vehicle; Unmanned air system

Indexed keywords

FAST PROTOTYPING; FLIGHT SIMULATION; FLIGHT TEST; FLIGHT TEST DATA; GRAPHICAL INTERFACE; HARD-WARE-IN-THE-LOOP; HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP TESTING; MATLAB ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICAL MODEL; PROTOTYPING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; UNMANNED AIR SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL CAMERA; VIRTUAL OBSTACLE; VISION BASED CONTROL; VISION DATA; VISION PROCESSING;

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; CODING ERRORS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; IMAGE SENSORS; MATLAB; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; RESEARCH; SIMULATORS; STANDARDIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 72449142126     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-009-9354-6     Document Type: Article

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