Autonomous Formation Flight

IEEE Control Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 34-44

  Giulietti, Fabrizio ^a   Pollini, Lorenzo ^a   Innocenti, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POSITION CONTROL; STATE SPACE METHODS; SYSTEM STABILITY; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

FLIGHT CONTROL; FORMATION FLIGHT; TWO LOOP CONTROL SYSTEM;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 0034499745     PISSN: 1066033X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/37.887447     Document Type: Article

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