Control performance analysis for autonomous close formation flight experiments

2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1175-1180

  Rice, Caleb ^a   Gu, Yu ^a   Chao, Haiyang ^b   Larrabee, Trenton ^a   Gururajan, Srikanth ^a   Napolitano, Marcello ^a   Mandal, Tanmay ^a   Rhudy, Matthew ^c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

close formation flight; flight control; flight testing; UAV

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE GASES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CONTROL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; FLIGHT CONTROL; FLIGHT TESTING; FORMATION FLIGHT; HIGH-DENSITY AIRSPACE;

RESEARCH AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84904565115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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