Hover, transition, and level flight control design for a single-propeller indoor airplane

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2007

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 100-117

  Frank, Adrian ^a,b,c   McGrew, James S ^a,b   Valenti, Mario ^a,b,d   Levine, Daniel ^a,b   How, Jonathan P ^a,b,d  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics ^*  (United States)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT LANDING; AIRCRAFT PROPELLERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; RAPID PROTOTYPING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ROTARY WING VEHICLES; TRANSITION MANEUVERS; VERTICAL LANDING PLATFORMS;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 37249038976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-6318     Document Type: Conference Paper

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