Planar Spline Trajectory Following for an Autonomous Helicopter

Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 237-242

  Harbick, Kale ^a   Montgomery, James F ^b   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

path planning; robotic helicopter; trajectory following; UAV

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; AIRCRAFT DETECTION; ANTENNAS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; TRAJECTORIES;

AERIAL ROBOTS; AUTONOMOUS HELICOPTERS; BEHAVIOR-BASED CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; GPS POSITIONING; INHERENT ERRORS; ROBOTIC HELICOPTER; TRAJECTORY FOLLOWING; TRAJECTORY TRACKING ERRORS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 18844420417     PISSN: 13430130     EISSN: 18838014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jaciii.2004.p0237     Document Type: Article

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