A hierarchical control strategy for the autonomous navigation of a ducted fan flying robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 2491-2496

  Pflimlin, Jean Michel ^a   Hamel, Tarek ^b   Soueres, Philippe ^a   Mahony, Robert ^c  

^a LAAS CNRS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUCTED FAN ENGINES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; STABILIZATION; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

CASCADE STRUCTURE; DUCTED FAN FLYING ROBOT; HIGH LEVEL CONTROLLER; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV);

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33845603136     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642076     Document Type: Conference Paper

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