Control and management of an indoor, health enabled, heterogenous fleet

AIAA Infotech at Aerospace Conference and Exhibit and AIAA Unmanned...Unlimited Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Halaas, David J ^a   Bieniawski, Stefan R ^a   Pigg, Paul ^a   Vian, John ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FLEET OPERATIONS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; HEALTH;

AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES; CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT; COST-EFFECTIVE MEANS; HARD-WARE-IN-THE-LOOP; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE; RELIABILITY BENEFITS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 77958489345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-2036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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