Approaches for a tether-guided landing of an autonomous helicopter

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 536-544

  Oh, So Ryeok ^a   Pathak, Kaustubh ^a   Agrawal, Sunil K ^a   Pota, Hemanshu Roy ^b   Garratt, Matt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitude control; Position control; Robustness; Tethered helicopter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; LANDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POSITION CONTROL;

ATTITUDE CONTROL; AUTONOMOUS HELICOPTER; AUTONOMOUS LANDING; TETHER-GUIDED LANDING; TETHERED HELICOPTER;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 33745156068     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.870657     Document Type: Article

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