LIDAR obstacle warning and avoidance system for unmanned aerial vehicle sense-and-avoid

Aerospace Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2016, Pages 344-358

  Ramasamy, Subramanian ^a   Sabatini, Roberto ^a   Gardi, Alessandro ^a   Liu, Jing ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airborne lasers; Integrated avionics systems; Laser sensors; Obstacle warning and avoidance; Sense and avoid; Unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; ALGORITHMS; FIXED WINGS; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTIMIZATION; TRAJECTORIES; VEHICLES;

AIRBORNE LASERS; INTEGRATED AVIONICS SYSTEM; LASER SENSOR; OBSTACLE WARNING; SENSE AND AVOID;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84976342594     PISSN: 12709638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ast.2016.05.020     Document Type: Article

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