Synchronized altitude tracking control of multiple unmanned helicopters

Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, ACC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4433-4438

  Cui, Rongxin ^a   Ge, Shuzhi Sam ^a   Ren, Beibei ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE NEURAL NETWORKS; NN CONTROL; OUTPUT-TRACKING; REFERENCE SIGNALS; SIMULATION RESULT; TRACKING CONTROLS; TRACKING TRAJECTORY; UNMANNED HELICOPTER; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

ALTITUDE CONTROL; HELICOPTERS; NAVIGATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 77957773836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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