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A fixed-wing aircraft for hovering in caves, tunnels, and buildings
2006 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-12, v 1-12, pp 1092-1097
01 Jan 2006
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Abstract
Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) are small bird-sized aircraft with applications in reconnaissance, search-and rescue, airborne agent and pathogen detection, and target acquisition. Fixed-wing MAVs cannot hover and thus, are not able to fly in tight, enclosed spaces. Rotary-wing platforms can hover but are limited by endurance. This paper presents a fixed-wing MAV with a secondary flight mode (i.e. hovering) allowing it to fly in caves, tunnels, and buildings. The sensing and control system used to achieve autonomous hovering is also described. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first documented success of autonomously hovering a fixed-wing MAV in the open literature.
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- Title
- A fixed-wing aircraft for hovering in caves, tunnels, and buildings
- Creators
- William E. Green - Institute of Robotics and Intelligent SystemsPaul Y. Oh - Institute of Robotics and Intelligent SystemsIEEE
- Publication Details
- 2006 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-12, v 1-12, pp 1092-1097
- Series
- Proceedings of the American Control Conference
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Number of pages
- 2
- Grant note
- 0347430 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000241666302013
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-34047195710
- Other Identifier
- 991019350676304721
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