Unmanned helicopter waypoint trajectory tracking using model predictive control

2007 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Castillo, C L ^a   Moreno, W ^a   Valavanis, K P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Model predictive control; Trajectory tracking; Unmanned helicopter; Waypoint navigation

Indexed keywords

HELICOPTERS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; STATE SPACE METHODS; TRACKING (POSITION); TRAJECTORIES;

CONTROL AND AUTOMATION; CONTROL EFFORT; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; CRUISE FLIGHT; FAST ALGORITHMS; LINEAR MODELING; POSITION TRACKING; RESEARCH WORKS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SLOW MOTION; SMALL UNMANNED HELICOPTERS; STATE-SPACE MODELING; TRAJECTORY TRACKING; UNMANNED HELICOPTER; UNMANNED HELICOPTERS; VELOCITY TRACKING; WAY POINTS; WAYPOINT NAVIGATION;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 50249117770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2007.4433726     Document Type: Conference Paper

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