A synthetic environment for simulation of vision-based formation flight

AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Pollini, Lorenzo ^a   Mati, Roberto ^a   Innocenti, Mario ^a   Campa, Giampiero ^b   Napolitano, Marcello ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; AIRCRAFT MODELS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL THEORY; ITERATIVE METHODS;

AIRCRAFT DYNAMICS; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; FORMATION CONTROL; GLOBALLY CONVERGENT; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; POSE ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; REFERENCE AIRCRAFT; SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENTS;

FLIGHT SIMULATORS;

EID: 85085774306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2003-5376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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