Assessing the flight quality of a large UAV for sensors/ground robots aerial delivery

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Archontakis, Andreas
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UAV
Network
LinAir software
Simulink
GSM
TNT
VoT
Snowflake
TNT tesbed
MANET
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Yakimenko, Oleg
Bordetsky, A.
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2010-09
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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The new goal for unmanned aerial systems will be to find creative methods of keeping the cost low and still maintain effectiveness. This thesis discusses the importance of UAVs over the last few years, suggests the development of a low-cost, large UAV, and evaluates the results. We also examine the idea of a platform for deploying multiple aerial-delivery, parafoil-based systems and discuss scenarios for the improvement of the collaboration of the large UAV with the Snowflake project.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10945/5116
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xviii, 51 p. : col. ill., 1 col. map ;
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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