Attitude stabilization of a VTOL quadrotor aircraft

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 562-571

  Tayebi, Abdelhamid ^a   McGilvray, Stephen ^b  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitude stabilization; Nonlinear control; Quadrotor; Rigid body in space; Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROTORS; VECTORS; VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

AIRFRAME ANGULAR VELOCITY; ATTITUDE STABILIZATION; GYROSCOPIC TORQUES; QUADROTOR AIRCRAFT; RIGID BODY; VECTOR QUATERNION;

FEEDBACK CONTROL;

EID: 33646017068     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2006.872519     Document Type: Article

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