Airship hover stabilization using a backstepping control approach

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 903-914

  Azinheira, José Raul ^a,c   Moutinho, Alexandra ^a,c   De Paiva, Ely Carneiro ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer   (Brazil)

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

^d Robotics and Computer Vision Department   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; STABILIZATION; TURBULENCE; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AIRSHIP HOVER STABILIZATION; BACKSTEPPING CONTROL; QUATERNION FORMULATION; UNMANNED ROBOTIC AIRSHIPS;

AIR CUSHION VEHICLES;

EID: 33747050400     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.17334     Document Type: Article

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