Precision flight control for a multi-vehicle quadrotor helicopter testbed

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1023-1036

  Hoffmann, Gabriel M ^a   Huang, Haomiao ^a   Waslander, Steven L ^b   Tomlin, Claire J ^c  

^a 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flight control; Quadrotor aerodynamics; Quadrotor helicopters; Unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

AERIAL VEHICLE; AUTONOMOUS ROTORCRAFTS; BLADE-ELEMENT THEORY; FLIGHT CONTROL; FLIGHT DATA; FREE-STREAM VELOCITY; MULTI-VEHICLES; MULTIAGENT CONTROL; PRECISION FLIGHT; QUADROTOR HELICOPTER; QUADROTORS; STANFORD; STATIC TESTS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

CONTROLLERS; HELICOPTERS; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

FREE FLIGHT;

EID: 79960891417     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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