Towards perpetual flight of a gliding unmanned aerial vehicle in the jet stream

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 6343-6349

  Grenestedt, Joachim L ^a   Spletzer, John R ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT COMMUNICATION; ANTENNAS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AIRCRAFT DESIGN; AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION; ELECTRICAL POWER; FLIGHT TRAJECTORY; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; POWER REQUIREMENT; SELF-POWERED; WIND GRADIENT;

AIR NAVIGATION;

EID: 79953134195     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2010.5717109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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