Guidance, navigation and control of a small, unmanned blended wing body aircraft

The purpose of this research is to document the design and optimisation of a full suite of guidance, navigation and control (GNC) algorithms for a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the Skywalker X8. This was performed so as to fill a void in the available literature on the selected airframe, whic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: van Wyk, David
Other Authors: Mouton, Hennie
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32426