Wind energy based path planning for a small gliding unmanned aerial vehicle

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lawrance, Nicholas R J ^a   Sukkarieh, Salah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FIXED WINGS; GLIDERS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WIND POWER;

ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY; DYNAMIC EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LONGITUDINAL MODELS; PATH PLANNING PROBLEMS; PLANNING HORIZONS; RAPIDLY-EXPLORING RANDOM TREES; SIX DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; THREE-DEGREE OF FREEDOM (3DOF);

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 78049311832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-6112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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