Autonomous thermal soaring of a fixed wing UAV using temperature sensors
<p> The efficiency of fixed wing Micro Aerial Vehicles can be improved if their endurance can be increased by thermal soaring. This requires development of a soaring strategy that can detect, map, and utilize thermals based on the temperature characteristics and implementation of that strategy...
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California State University, Long Beach
2017
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| Online Access: | http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10239609 |