Pitch-altitude control and terrain following based on bio-inspired visuomotor convergence

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 4407-4418

  Sean Humbert, J ^a   Murray, Richard M ^b   Dickinson, Michael H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; AVIATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; ROBOTS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

FLIGHT MOTOR COMMANDS; PITCH-ALTITUDE CONTROL; RAPID PROCESSING;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 29744467737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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