26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-5.6.2

ROUTE PLANNING FOR RELAY UAV

A. Holmberg, P. -M. Olsson*
Saab Aerosystems, Sweden; *Linköping Univ., Sweden

Keywords: relay UAV, payload UAV, preplanning

To allow soldiers and vehicle, aerial as well as on ground, to communicate without line of sight with each other an UAV that relays their messages can be used. This paper shows how a predefined route is calculated to keep the relay UAV at as low altitude as possible.

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