Vision/GPS-based docking control for the UAV Autonomous Aerial Refueling

CGNCC 2016 - 2016 IEEE Chinese Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 1211-1215

  Zhu, Hu ^a   Yuan, Suozhong ^a   Shen, Qian ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Autonomous Aerial Refueling; Docking; Machine Vision; Sensor Fusion; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Indexed keywords

AIR REFUELING; COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL THEORY; DOCKING; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTONOMOUS AERIAL REFUELING; CONTROL SCHEMES; DOCKING CONTROL; DOCKING SYSTEM; LINEAR QUADRATIC REGULATOR CONTROL; RELATIVE POSITIONS; SENSOR FUSION;

AIRCRAFT CONTROL;

EID: 85015218892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CGNCC.2016.7828960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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