Mission path following for an autonomous unmanned airship

Proceedings-IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1269-1275

  Azinheira, Josä Raul ^a   de Paiva, Ely Carneiro ^b,c   Ramos, Josuä G ^c   Bueno, Samuel Siqueira ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE SÃO FRANCISCO   (Brazil)

^c Informatics Technology Center   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED REMOTE MONITORING ROBOTIC AIRSHIP; MISSION PATH FOLLOWING; PATH TRACKING ERROR GENERATION METHODOLOGY;

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMIC LOADS; AIRSHIPS; ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; SCADA SYSTEMS; TRACKING (POSITION); TRAJECTORIES; TWO TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0033707418     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844773     Document Type: Article

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