QFT-based robust/fault-tolerant flight control design for a remote pilotless vehicle

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1010-1016

  Wu, Shu Fan ^a   Grimble, Michael J ^b   Wei, Wei ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT MODELS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; REMOTE CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SYSTEM STABILITY; TRACKING (POSITION); UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

AIRCRAFT FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM; QUANTITATIVE FEEDBACK THEORY; REMOTE PILOTLESS VEHICLE;

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0034317595     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/87.880607     Document Type: Article

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