A different look at output tracking: Control of a VTOL aircraft

Automatica

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 101-107

  Martin, Philippe ^a   Devasia, Santosh ^b   Paden, Brad ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft control; Inversion; Nonlinear theory; Output tracking

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; LINEARIZATION; PERFORMANCE; STABILIZATION; VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

NONMINIMUM PHASE SYSTEMS; PVTOL AIRCRAFT;

NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029754366     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0005-1098(95)00099-2     Document Type: Article

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