Design and flight testing evaluation of formation control laws

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1105-1112

  Gu, Yu ^a   Seanor, Brad ^a   Campa, Giampiero ^a   Napolitano, Marcello R ^a   Rowe, Larry ^a   Gururajan, Srikanth ^a   Wan, Sheng ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Formation flight; Nonlinear dynamic inversion (NLDI); Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); Virtual leader (VL)

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT PROPULSION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FORMATION FLIGHT; NONLINEAR DYNAMIC INVERSION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE; VIRTUAL LEADER;

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33750386301     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2006.880203     Document Type: Article

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