Endurance bounds of aerial systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9083, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Harrington, Aaron M ^a   Kroninger, Christopher M ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive structures; Efficiency; Endurance; Micro aerial vehicles; Performance bounds; Power

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DURABILITY; EFFICIENCY; FIXED WINGS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ADAPTIVE STRUCTURE; COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; PERFORMANCE BOUNDS; POWER; PROPULSION SYSTEM; ROTARY WING VEHICLES; VEHICLE CONFIGURATION;

VEHICLE PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84905748692     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2053790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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