The role of visual cues and whole-body rotations in helicopter hovering control

Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 962-974

  Berger, Daniel R ^a   Terzibas, Cengiz ^a   Beykirch, Karl ^a   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; OPTICAL FLOWS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

HELICOPTER HOVERING CONTROL; HELICOPTER PILOTS; PHYSICAL PITCH;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 40549084331     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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