Ornithopter flight stabilization

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6525, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Dietl, John M ^a   Garcia, Ephrahim ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Floquet multipliers; Ornithopter; Stabilization

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STABILIZATION; STATE SPACE METHODS; VEHICLES;

FLIGHT STABILIZATION; FLOQUET METHOD; ORNITHOPTER; VEHICLE DYNAMICS MODEL;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 35549002683     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.715794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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