Guidance, navigation, and control system design for tripropeller vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned air vehicle

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1837-1856

  Huang, Rui ^a,b   Liu, Yong ^a,b   Zhu, J Jim ^a,b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; AIRCRAFT CONTROL; AIRCRAFT LANDING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; FREE FLIGHT; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; TAKEOFF; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

3 DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; GUIDANCE , NAVIGATION , AND CONTROLS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; SIMULATION VERIFICATION; TRAJECTORY LINEARIZATION CONTROL; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLE (UAVS); VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDINGS;

VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

EID: 73849141220     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.34476     Document Type: Article

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