Shipboard Landing Challenges for Autonomous Parafoils

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Hewgley, Charles W.
Yakimenko, Oleg A.
Slegers, Nathan J.
Date
2011-05Metadata
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This paper examines some of the challenges that must be overcome if future aerial delivery systems are to have the capability to land on the _ight deck of a ship underway. The unique aspects of trajectory planning for
landing on a shipメs _ight deck are _rst examined, followed by formulation of the position estimation problem for a moving target. Some preliminary investigations into characterizing the wind over a moving landing
platform at sea are then described. Finally, experimental results are presented for testing of a small prototype autonomous parafoil with a simple moving target on land.
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21st AIAA Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference, Dublin, Ireland, May 23-26, 2011.