Control laws for a formation of autonomous flight vehicles

Aeronautical Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 1147, 2009, Pages 609-616

  Chiaramonti, M ^a   Mengali, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; CONTROL LAWS; INVERSION THEORY; SIMULINK; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CONTROL;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 70350317594     PISSN: 00019240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001924000003274     Document Type: Article

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