Project AURORA: Insfractructure and flight control experiments for a robotic airship

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 201-222

  De Paiva, Ely Carneiro ^a   Azinheira, José Raul ^b   Ramos Jr , Josué G ^a   Moutinho, Alexandra ^b   Bueno, Samuel Siqueira ^a  

^a Renato Archer Research Center   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Superior Tecnico Institute for Mechanical Engineering   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AIRSHIP FLIGHT PATH; FLIGHT CONTROL; ROBOTIC AIRSHIP FLIGHT; UNMANNED ROBOTIC AIRSHIPS;

AIRSHIPS;

EID: 33745700798     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20111     Document Type: Article

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