Autonomous sense & avoid capabilities based on aircraft performances estimation

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering

Volumn 228, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 492-517

  Melega, Marco ^a   Lazarus, Samuel ^a   Lone, Mudassir ^a   Savvaris, Al ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomous collision avoidance; Path following; Remotely piloted vehicle; Sense and avoid; Unmanned aircraft vehicle

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894637585     PISSN: 09544100     EISSN: 20413025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0954410012472603     Document Type: Article

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