High endurance, micro aerial surveillance and reconnaisance robot

2011 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, TePRA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-6

  Ratti, Jayant ^a   Vachtsevanos, George ^a  

^a School of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION SYSTEMS; AERIAL ROBOTS; AERIAL SURVEILLANCE; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; EMBEDDED CONTROL; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FLAPPING WING; FLIGHT CONTROL; FLIGHT PERFORMANCE; FLIGHT TESTING; HIGH-SPEED; INDUSTRY SPONSORS; INTELLIGENCE , SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISSANCES; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; MICRO FLYING ROBOTS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; POWER-TO-WEIGHT RATIOS; RECONNAISANCE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; WING CONFIGURATIONS;

AERODYNAMICS; DURABILITY; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); MONITORING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 79956115414     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TEPRA.2011.5753472     Document Type: Conference Paper

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