Autonomous UAV guidance build-up: Flight-test demonstration and evaluation plan

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Mettler, B ^a   Valenti, M ^a   Schouwenaars, T ^a   Kuwata, Y ^a   How, J ^b   Paunicka, J ^a   Feron, E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CONTROL THEORY; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; REMOTE CONTROL; SOFTWARE TESTING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTONOMOUS GUIDANCE; FLIGHT TEST PROGRAMS; LINEAR TIME INVARIANT; MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAM; OPEN CONTROL PLATFORMS; RECEDING HORIZON; TRAJECTORY SAFETY; VEHICLE DYNAMICS;

AIR NAVIGATION;

EID: 85088758969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2003-5744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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