Flight testing of optimal remotely-piloted-aircraft-system scan patterns

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1675-1691

  Geister, D ^a,b   Schwoch, G ^a,b   Becker, H ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Institute of Flight Guidance   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; REMOTE CONTROL; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; FLIGHT MANEUVERS; FLIGHT TESTING; HIGH-ACCURACY; OPTIMAL RESULTS; REAL-TIME IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTELY PILOTED AIRCRAFT; SCAN PATTERNS;

FLIGHT PATHS;

EID: 85044306630     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.C034337     Document Type: Article

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