Experimental model predictive attitude tracking control of a quadrotor helicopter subject to wind-gusts

18th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED'10 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1461-1466

  Alexis, Kostas ^a   Nikolakopoulos, George ^a   Tzes, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE MANEUVER; ATTITUDE TRACKING; ATTITUDE TRACKING CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; NAVIGATION AND CONTROL; PIECEWISE AFFINES; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; QUADROTOR HELICOPTER; SUDDEN MANEUVERS; WIND DISTURBANCE;

ALGORITHMS; HELICOPTERS; NAVIGATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 77957000034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2010.5547844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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