Autonomous vehicle technologies for small fixed wing UAVs

2nd AIAA "Unmanned Unlimited" Conference and Workshop and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Kingston, Derek ^a   Beard, Randal ^a   McLain, Timothy ^a   Larsen, Michael ^b   Ren, Wei ^a  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

^b Information Systems Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; FIXED WINGS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; KINEMATICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TRAJECTORIES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES; DYNAMIC TRAJECTORIES; KINEMATIC CONSTRAINTS; KINEMATIC STRUCTURES; REAL-TIME COMPUTATIONS; REAL-TIME MOTION PLANNING; TRAJECTORY GENERATION; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLE (UAVS);

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 85088181230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2003-6559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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