An alternative nonlinear control law for the global stabilization of the PVTOL vehicle

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1282-1287

  Wood, Rohin ^a   Cazzolato, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cascade control; Nonlinear control; Planar vertical take off and landing vehicle (PVTOL)

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL STABILIZATION; PLANAR VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDING VEHICLE;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547107600     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2007.900831     Document Type: Article

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