Wind shear energy extraction using dynamic soaring techniques

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Akhtar, Naseem ^a   Whidborne, James F ^a   Cooke, Alastair K ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; FUEL ECONOMY; REAL TIME CONTROL;

DYNAMIC SOARING; ENERGY EXTRACTION; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATIONS; TRAJECTORY FOLLOWING; TRAJECTORY GENERATION; TRAJECTORY GENERATION METHOD; WINDSHEAR MODEL;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 78549237894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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