Potential field-based navigation task for autonomous flight control of unmanned aerial vehicles

International Journal of Automation and Control

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-21

  Cetin, Omer ^a   Kurnaz, Sefer ^a   Kaynak, Okyay ^b   Temeltas, Hakan ^c  

^a TURKISH AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (Turkey)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Flight control; Navigation task of UAV; Potential fields

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; ALTITUDE CONTROL; ANTENNAS; FUZZY LOGIC; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT CONTROL; DESIGN PROCEDURE; ELLIPTICAL SHAPES; FLIGHT CONTROL; NAVIGATION TASKS; POTENTIAL FIELD; POTENTIAL VECTORS; SIMULATED TESTS;

AIR NAVIGATION;

EID: 78651550391     PISSN: 17407516     EISSN: 17407524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAAC.2011.037377     Document Type: Article

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