On Global Tracking Control of a VTOL Aircraft without Velocity Measurements

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2212-2217

  Do, K D ^a   Jiang, Z P ^b   Pan, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backstepping; Lyapunov's direct method; Output feedback; Vertical take off and landing (VTOL)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BACKSTEPPING; OUTPUT-FEEDBACK;

VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0346686090     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2003.820148     Document Type: Article

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