Formation control laws for autonomous flight vehicles

14th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chiaramonti, Martina ^a   Giulietti, Fabrizio ^b   Mengali, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC INVERSION; FORMATION CONTROL; FORMATION DYNAMICS; LEADER WINGMAN;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 35948931486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2006.328818     Document Type: Conference Paper

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