An increasing interest over the last decade in developing unmanned aerial systems׳
technologies has prompted research into methods for automating air to air refuelling …

AUTONOMOUS in-flight aerial refueling is an important capability for the future deployment
of unmanned aerial vehicles. 1, 2 Reference 2 provides an overview of the various aspects …

This paper considers the fusion of carrier-phase differential GPS (CP-DGPS), peer-to-peer
ranging radios, and low-cost inertial navigation systems (INS) for the application of relative …

The probe-and-drogue autonomous aerial refueling (AAR) docking suffers the multiwind
disturbances leading to the low accuracy of receiver position control and drogue relative …

Autonomous aerial refueling is a key enabling technology for both manned and unmanned
aircraft where extended flight duration or range are required. The results presented within …

To promote the combat capability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the future
battlefield, the autonomous aerial refueling (AAR) technology becomes a challenging …

WITH the advent of unmanned flight vehicles, safe and reliable autonomous aerial refueling
(AAR) capabilities become a necessity. Reference [1] presents a good overview of the …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capability is currently limited by the amount of energy that
can be stored onboard. Airborne docking, for mid-air refueling, is a viable solution that has …

This paper addresses the problem of controlling the receiver aircraft to achieve a successful
aerial refueling. For the performance verification of the controller, a new set of nonlinear, 6 …

AERIAL refueling has been used to extend the range of military aircraft for over 50 years.
There is now interest in the research community [1] to develop efficient and robust control …