Robust full degree-of-freedom tracking control of a helicopter

Automatica

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1909-1920

  Marconi, Lorenzo ^a   Naldi, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dynamic inversion; Helicopter; High gain feedback; Nonlinear robust control; Saturation functions

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLABILITY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FEEDBACK CONTROL; FEEDFORWARD CONTROL; HELICOPTERS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUST CONTROL;

ATTITUDE MOTION; DYNAMIC INVERSION; NONLINEAR CONTROLLERS; SATURATION FUNCTIONS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 35348859660     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2007.03.028     Document Type: Article

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