Formation control of VTOL UAVs without linear-velocity measurements

Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, ACC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2107-2112

  Abdessameud, A ^a   Tayebi, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT LANDING; ANTENNAS; CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AUXILIARY VARIABLES; COMMUNICATION TOPOLOGIES; CONTROL SCHEMES; FORMATION CONTROL; FORMATION CONTROL PROBLEMS; ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS; TRANSLATIONAL DYNAMICS; VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDINGS;

VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

EID: 77957771138     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/acc.2010.5531323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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