A path-following preview controller for autonomous air vehicles

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2006

Volumn 8, Issue , 2006, Pages 4929-4949

  Cunha, Rita ^a,b   Antunes, Duarte ^a,b   Gomes, Pedro ^a,b   Silvestre, Carlos ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ^*  (Portugal)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; HELICOPTERS; MOTION PLANNING; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STEERING;

AUTONOMOUS AIR VEHICLES; LINEAR MATRIX INEQUALITIES (LMI); LINEAR PARAMETER VARYING (LPV);

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 33845760466     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-6715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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