Unmanned aircraft systems sense and avoid flight testing utilizing ADS-B transceiver

AIAA Infotech at Aerospace 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Martel, Florent ^a   Schultz, Richard R ^a   Wang, Ziming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DEPENDENT SURVEILLANCE - BROADCASTS; CENTRAL COMPONENT; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; FLIGHT TEST; FLIGHT TESTING; HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATION; NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SMALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS; SOFTWARE IN THE LOOPS; UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA; UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; AIRCRAFT DETECTION; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECELERATION; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRANSCEIVERS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 78650033618     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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