Design and integration of flexi bird - A low cost sub-scale research aircraft for safety and environmental issues

27th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2010, ICAS 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 101-113

  Goraj, Zdobyslaw ^a   Kitmann, Klaus ^b   Voit Nitschmann, Rudolf ^b   Szender, Marcin ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autopilot; Avionics; Free flight test; Scaled model; System design

Indexed keywords

AUTOPILOT; DESIGN AND INTEGRATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; EVALUATION PLATFORMS; GROUND CONTROL STATIONS; MATLAB/SIMULINK SOFTWARE; SCALED MODELS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

AIRPORT PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION; AVIONICS; DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; FREE FLIGHT; RESEARCH; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT; SOFTWARE TESTING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AIRCRAFT CONTROL;

EID: 84878481541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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