Lyapunov guidance vector fields for unmanned aircraft applications

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 371-376

  Frew, Eric W ^a,b   Lawrence, Dale A ^b   Dixon, Cory ^b   Elston, Jack ^b   Pisano, William J ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR ORBITS; CIRCULAR PATTERN; COOPERATIVE TRACKING; EXTREMUM SEEKING; FLIGHT DATA (FD); LYAPUNOV; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); MOVING TARGETS; PLUME TRACKING; SIMULATION RESULTS; UNMANNED AIRCRAFT; VECTOR FIELDS (CO); VIRTUAL DYNAMICS;

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; CONTROL THEORY; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; ORBITS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VECTORS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 46449110901     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2007.4282974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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