Detection and prevention of faults in overhead electric lines is critical for the reliability and
availability of electricity supply. The disadvantages of conventional methods range from …

By refueling aircraft while they are in flight, aerial refueling is an efficient technique to extend
their endurance and range. Autonomous Aerial Refueling (AAR) is anticipated to be used to …

Tethered aircraft system has been widely investigated because of its extensive application in
hose-drogue autonomous aerial refueling, aerial towed decoy, and towed aerial recovery …

The suppression of vibrations in flexible hoses during autonomous aerial refueling (AAR) is
crucial for enhancing mission success rates and safety, advancing AAR technology. In this …

In a probe–drogue aerial refueling system, the drogue is affected not only by wind
disturbances but also by strong disturbances from the tanker vortex and receiver forebody …

AUTONOMOUS aerial refueling (AAR) is an important method to increase the voyage and
endurance of unmanned aerial vehicles and avoid the conflict between the takeoff weight …

Abstract Unmanned autonomous Air-to-Air Refueling (AAR) capability is the key guarantee
to support the distant-field, high-intensity and durable operations of the penetration …

Probe-and-drogue aerial refueling has been widely adopted because of its flexibility, but the
drogue is susceptible to wind disturbances, especially the receiver forebody bow wave …

Designing a controller for the docking maneuver in Probe-Drogue Refueling (PDR) is an
important but challenging task, due to the complex system model and the high precision …

Aiming at the probe docking control problem in aerial recovery, this article proposes a neural-
adaptive probe dynamics direct control algorithm with preassigned docking performance for …