A practical survey on the flight control system of small-scale unmanned helicopter

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 364-369

  Wang, Xiaodong ^a   Zhao, Xiaoguang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Dynamic inversion; Flight control; Neural network; Robust control; Unmanned helicopter

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; HELICOPTERS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

AUTONOMOUS HELICOPTERS; CLASSICAL CONTROLS; CONTROL AND AUTOMATION; DYNAMIC INVERSION; FLIGHT CONTROL; MULTI-VARIABLE CONTROLS; NEURAL NETWORK; ROBUST CONTROL; SMALL-SCALE UNMANNED HELICOPTER; UNMANNED HELICOPTER;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 52149088713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCICA.2008.4592952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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