Towards autonomous indoor micro VTOL

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-183

  Bouabdallah, Samir ^a   Murrieri, Pierpaolo ^b   Siegwart, Roland ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Design optimization; Lyapunov controller; Micro VTOL; Quadrotor architecture; VTOL control; VTOL design

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER VISION; HELICOPTERS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; PROXIMITY SENSORS;

LYAPUNOV CONTROLLER; MICRO VTOL; QUADROTOR ARCHITECTURE; VTOL CONTROL; VTOL DESIGN;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 17444373958     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-005-0724-z     Document Type: Article

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