Cooperative control systems of searching targets using unmanned blimps

Proceedings of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1179-1183

  Xia, Guoqing ^a   Corbett, Dan R ^b  

^a HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blimps; Cooperative control system; Modeling; Sliding mode control

Indexed keywords

AERIAL ROBOTS; BASE STATIONS; COOPERATIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE;

AIRSHIPS; ANGLE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ROBOTICS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; VECTORS;

SLIDING MODE CONTROL;

EID: 4444264801     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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