Wind field estimation in UAV formation flight

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 5408-5413

  Larrabee, Trenton ^a   Chao, Haiyang ^b   Rhudy, Matthew ^c   Gu, Yu ^a   Napolitano, Marcello R ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air Data System; Formation Flight; Wake Modeling; Wind Estimation

Indexed keywords

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WAKES;

AIR DATA SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORM; FORMATION FLIGHT; LEADER-FOLLOWER FORMATIONS; UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER; WAKE MODEL; WIND ESTIMATION; WIND FIELD ESTIMATION;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84905714805     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2014.6859266     Document Type: Conference Paper

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