A guidance law that combines wind-direction steering with on-demand airspeed boosts prevents small fixed-wing UAVs from being blown off course in winds exceeding their airspeed, as shown in Swiss flight tests.
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On Flying Backwards: Preventing Run-away of Small, Low-speed, Fixed-wing UAVs in Strong Winds
A guidance law that combines wind-direction steering with on-demand airspeed boosts prevents small fixed-wing UAVs from being blown off course in winds exceeding their airspeed, as shown in Swiss flight tests.