Autonomous charging to enable long-endurance missions for small aerial robots

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9083, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mulgaonkar, Yash ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous recharging; MAVs; Persistence missions; Quadrotors

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CHARGING (BATTERIES); EXPERIMENTS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); NANOTECHNOLOGY;

AERIAL SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN INTERVENTION; MAVS; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; PERSISTENCE MISSIONS; QUADROTORS; RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES; ROTARY WING AIRCRAFTS;

SECONDARY BATTERIES;

EID: 84905728343     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2051111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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