Flight test of a radar-based tracking system for UAS sense and avoid

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1139-1160

  Accardo, Domenico ^a   Fasano, Giancarmine ^a   Forlenza, Lidia ^b   Moccia, Antonio ^a   Rispoli, Attilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b ITALIAN AEROSPACE RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; OBSTACLE DETECTION; RELATIVE POSITIONS; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; TRACKING ALGORITHM; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SENSORS; TRACKING (POSITION); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84876159604     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2013.6494404     Document Type: Article

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