A minimalist control strategy for small UAVs

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2873-2878

  Leven, Severin ^a   Zufferey, Jean Christophe ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR VEHICLE; ARTIFICIAL PERTURBATIONS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; FLYING PLATFORMS; REACTIVE CONTROL; SINGLE-AXIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

FEEDBACK; FIXED WINGS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; SENSORS; STATE FEEDBACK;

ALTITUDE CONTROL;

EID: 76249088202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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