GPGPU accelerated potential field based autonomous air refueling approach for UAVs

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 269-277

  Cetin, Omer ^a   Yilmaz, Guray ^a  

^a TURKISH AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Autonomous Air Refueling; GPGPU; Potential Fields

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; COMPUTATIONAL BOTTLENECKS; GENERAL PURPOSE PROGRAMMING; GPGPU; GRAPHIC PROCESSOR UNITS; PARALLEL COMPUTING PLATFORM; POTENTIAL FIELD; REAL-TIME APPLICATION;

MOTION PLANNING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AIR REFUELING;

EID: 84883093680     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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