Randomization-based control design for Mini-UAVs

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 974-983

  Lorefice, Laura ^a   Pralio, Barbara ^b   Tempo, Roberto ^b  

^a CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flight control systems; Mini UAVs; Randomized algorithms; Robustness; Uncertain parameters

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; APRIORI; AUTOMATED DESIGN; COMPUTATIONAL ISSUES; CONTROL DESIGN; CONTROLLER SYNTHESIS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; MINI-UAV; MINI-UAVS; OPERATING CONDITION; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PROBABILISTIC ROBUSTNESS; RANDOM SEARCHES; RANDOMIZED ALGORITHMS; RANDOMIZED METHOD; ROBUSTNESS; SELECTION CRITERIA; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT; UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS;

CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DESIGN; ROBUST CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 67349208164     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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