Global configuration stabilization for the VTOL aircraft with strong input coupling

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1949-1951

  Olfati Saber, Reza ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; Backstepping; Differential flatness; Global stabilization; Nonlinear control

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; STATE FEEDBACK; TRACKING (POSITION); TRAJECTORIES;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE;

VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0036858399     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2002.804457     Document Type: Article

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