From mission planning to flight control of unmanned aerial vehicles: Strategies and implementation tools

Annual Reviews in Control

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 101-115

  Vachtsevanos, George ^a   Tang, Liang ^a   Drozeski, Graham ^a   Gutierrez, Luis ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Autonomous vehicle; Fault detection; Fault tolerant control; Flight control; Intelligent control

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

FAULT DETECTION; FAULT TOLERANT CONTROL; FLIGHT CONTROL; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 19044371253     PISSN: 13675788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arcontrol.2004.11.002     Document Type: Article

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