The US Department of Defense (DOD) defines an unmanned aircraft as the following: A
powered vehicle that does not carry a human operator, can be operated remotely or …

Precision Aerial Delivery Systems: Modeling, Dynamics, and Control provides an overview
of the recent developments in precision aerial cargo delivery from the standpoint of …

Parafoil systems represent flexible wing vehicles. In case a vehicle is flying at low altitude, it
is well known that the vehicle is more susceptible to winds. Also, due to the nonlinear, large …

GUIDED parafoils are providing improved capability in performing a diverse set of military
and civilian missions, such as precision airdrop, reconnaissance, troop resupply, and …

BEING lightweight and inherently easy to deploy, precision aerial delivery systems (PADSs)
have the potential to lead to both drastic cost reductions and improved landing precision in …

RECOVERING unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) by means of guided parafoils, if made to
work, is an attractive concept because it negates the necessity to land on a runway and …

The design of remotely controlled and autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an
actual direction in modern aircraft development. A promising aircraft of this type is a powered …

On the Benefits of In-Flight System Identification for Autonomous Airdrop Systems Page 1 On the
Benefits of In-Flight System Identification for Autonomous Airdrop Systems Michael Ward ∗ and …

Despite success in developing and fielding a family of different-weight precision self-guiding
parafoil-based aerial payload delivery systems, there is a need for a system that would trade …

This article describes the detailed derivation of a non-linear dynamic model of a powered
paraglider (PPG) and a linear dynamics analysis using a linear model obtained from the non …