On the development of a small hand-held multi-UAV platform for surveillance and monitoring

2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2013 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 405-412

  Avellar, Gustavo S C ^a   Thums, Goncalo D ^a   Lima, Rogerio R ^a   Iscold, Paulo ^a   Torres, Leonardo A B ^a   Pereira, Guilherme A S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DESIGNS; ATTITUDE AND HEADING REFERENCE SYSTEMS; CAN DESIGN; FINE TUNING; FLIGHT TESTING; LOW LEVEL CONTROL; MECHANICAL ASSEMBLY; NAVIGATION ALGORITHMS;

AERODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84883077026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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