Long distance/duration trajectory optimization for small UAVs

Keyphrases

• Long Distance 100%
• Trajectory Optimization 100%
• Small UAV 100%
• Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles 100%
• Wind Field 66%
• Pennsylvania 33%
• Minimum Time 33%
• Wind Speed 33%
• Orographic Lifting 33%
• Performance Constraints 33%
• Atmospheric Energetics 33%
• Vertical Component 33%
• Long-distance Flight 33%
• Trajectory Planner 33%
• Vertical Variation 33%
• Global Positioning System Data 33%
• Low-altitude Flight 33%
• Orography 33%
• Polynomial Function 33%
• Horizontal Variation 33%
• Autonomous Soaring 33%
• Bald Eagle 33%
• Dynamic Soaring 33%
• Optimal Trajectory 33%
• Soaring Flight 33%
• Thermal Wave 33%
• Point Mass Model 33%
• Vehicle Kinematics 33%

Engineering

• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle 100%
• Sensor Data 100%
• Performance Constraint 100%
• Level Flight 100%
• Optimal Trajectory 100%
• Point Mass Model 100%
• Global Positioning System 100%

Earth and Planetary Sciences

• Wind Field 100%
• Trajectory Optimization 100%
• Atmospherics 50%
• Pennsylvania 50%
• Wind Velocity 50%
• Global Positioning System 50%
• Low-Level Flight 50%
• Decision Making 50%