Solar-powered, formation-enhanced aerial vehicle systems for sustained endurance

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 684-688

  Chichka, David F ^a,b   Speyer, Jason L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT FLYING; AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; FORMATION FLIGHT SYSTEMS; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PROPULSION SYSTEM; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SYSTEM CONCEPTS;

CONTROL;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84881329241     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.1998.703493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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