Full mission simulation of a rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicle for landing in a non-cooperative environment

Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 2034-2048

  Theodore, Colin ^a   Shelden, Steve ^a   Rowley, Dale ^a   McLain, Tim ^b   Dai, Weiliang ^a   Takahashi, Marc ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS LANDING; DETERMINATION ALGORITHM; DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; INTEGRATED SIMULATION ENVIRONMENTS; MACHINE VISION ALGORITHM; MISSION SIMULATION; POSITION ESTIMATION; VEHICLE DYNAMICS MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; HELICOPTERS; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; ROTORS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); USER INTERFACES;

LANDING;

EID: 84883536505     PISSN: 15522938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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