A guidance and control strategy for dynamic soaring with a gliding UAV

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3632-3637

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC SOARING; FREE-FLYING PLATFORMS; GUIDANCE AND CONTROL; PIECE-WISE; TRAJECTORY-BASED; VERTICAL WIND; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR;

FREE FLIGHT;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 79955947349     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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