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Guidance and control of an autonomous soaring vehicle with flight test results
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Allen, Michael J. |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Description | A guidance and control method was developed to detect and exploit thermals for energy gain. Latency in energy rate estimation degraded performance. The concept of a UAV harvesting energy from the atmosphere has been shown to be feasible with existing technology. Many UAVs have similar mission constraints to birds and sailplanes. a) Surveillance; b) Point to point flight with minimal energy; and c) Increased ground speed. |
| File Size | 1476290 |
| Page Count | 21 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20070021638 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t24b8251m |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2007-05-08 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aircraft Stability And Control Flight Tests Ground Speed Pilotless Aircraft Surveillance Mission Planning Gliders Autonomy Soaring Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
