Self-sustainability in nano unmanned aerial vehicles: A blimp case study

ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2017, CF 2017

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 79-88

  Palossi, Daniele ^a   Gomez, Andres ^a   Draskovic, Stefan ^a   Keller, Kevin ^a   Benini, Luca ^a,b   Thiele, Lothar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blimp; Energy neutrality; Self sustainability; UAV

Indexed keywords

AIRSHIPS; HELIUM; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENERGY DENSITY; ENERGY NEUTRALITY; ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; HIGH-POWER ACTUATORS; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; SELF-SUSTAINABLE; SOLAR PANELS; SYSTEM MODELING;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 85027033077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3075564.3075580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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