Cooperative Control for Landing a Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on a Ground Vehicle

High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) platforms are a type of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). With their relatively easy deployment and independence of a fixed orbit, HALE UAVs have the potential to re ...

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