Controllability and reachability for micro-aerial-vehicle trajectory planning in winds

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1020-1023

  Ketema, Yohannes ^a,b   Zhao, Yiyuan J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CONTROLLABILITY; TRAJECTORIES;

BOUNDARY CONSTRAINTS; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; PERFORMANCE CAPABILITY; POINT MASS MODELS; TARGET TRAJECTORY; TIME INTERVAL; TRAJECTORY POINTS; WIND CONDITIONS;

MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

EID: 77953731852     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.44779     Document Type: Article

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