Modeling and simulation of a shrouded-fan UAV for environmental monitoring

1st UAV Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Avanzini, Giulio ^a   D'Angelo, Salvatore ^a   De Matteis, Guido ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP; HARDWARE/SOFTWARE; MODEL AND SIMULATION; SCIENCE APPLICATIONS; UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLE;

AUTOMATIC TEST PATTERN GENERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HARDWARE; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 84896819080     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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