Model Identification of a Micro Air Vehicle in Loitering Flight Based on Attitude Performance Evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 702-712

  Wu, Huaiyu ^a   Sun, Dong ^b   Zhou, Zhaoyin ^c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Autoregressive with exogenous input (ARX) model; loitering flight; micro air vehicle (MAV); model identification; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POSITION CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM; LOITERING FLIGHT; MICRO AIR VEHICLE; MODEL IDENTIFICATION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 4344669655     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: 19410468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2004.829442     Document Type: Article

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