Nonlinear control for reconfiguration of unmanned-aerial-vehicle formation

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 667-678

  Dogan, Atilla ^a,b   Venkataramanan, Sriram ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; WIND EFFECTS;

RECONFIGURATION; UNMANNED-AERIAL-VEHICLE (UAV); VIRTUAL LEADER (VL); WIND GRADIENTS;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 22944457926     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.8760     Document Type: Article

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