Design and Flight Testing of a Gain-Scheduled H ∞ Loop Shaping Controller for Wide-Envelope Flight of a Robotic Helicopter

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2003, Pages 4195-4200

  La Civita, Marco ^a   Papageorgiou, George ^a   Messner, William C ^a   Kanade, Takeo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; FEEDBACK; HELICOPTERS; TRACKING (POSITION); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

FLIGHT CONTROL;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0142200017     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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