Adaptive position tracking of VTOL UAVs

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-142

  Roberts, Andrew ^a   Tayebi, Abdelhamid ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV); vertical take off and landing (VTOL)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; CONTROL DESIGN; CONTROL GAINS; CONTROL LAWS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; EXTERNAL DISTURBANCES; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LINEAR ACCELERATIONS; POSITION TRACKING; ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS; SIMULATION RESULT; SYSTEM CONTROL; TRACKING CONTROLS; TRANSLATIONAL DYNAMICS; UNIT QUATERNION; UNMANNED AIRBORNE VEHICLES; VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDINGS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; DESIGN; LANDING; TAKEOFF; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 79951581010     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2010.2092870     Document Type: Article

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