Evaluation of control strategies for fixed-wing drones following slow-moving ground agents

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 72, Issue , 2015, Pages 285-294

  Varga, Maja ^a   Zufferey, Jean Christophe ^b   Heitz, Gregoire Hilaire Marie ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SenseFly   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fixed wing UAVs; Target tracking

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AIRCRAFT CONTROL; AIRCRAFT DETECTION; DRONES; FIXED WINGS; TARGET TRACKING; TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

AVERAGE DISTANCE; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DISTANCE METRICS; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; PERFORMANCE METRICES; TARGET MOTIONS; VECTOR FIELDS;

TARGET DRONES;

EID: 84937518076     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2015.06.003     Document Type: Article

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