Autopilot-based nonlinear UAV formation controller with extremum-seeking

Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference, CDC-ECC '05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 4933-4938

  Feng, Xie ^a   Ximing, Zhang ^a   Fierro, Rafael ^a   Motter, Mark ^b  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EXTREMUM-SEEKING (ES) CONTROLLER; FORMATION FLIGHT OBJECTIVES;

NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847217925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2005.1582943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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