Morphing unmanned aerial vehicles

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Gomez, Juan Carlos ^a   Garcia, Ephrahim ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST REQUIREMENTS; DRIVING FORCES; MATERIALS ADVANCEMENTS; MORPHING; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 80053467860     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/20/10/103001     Document Type: Review

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