Terrain avoidance model predictive control for autonomous rotorcraft

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 17, Issue 1 PART 1, 2008, Pages

  Guerreiro, Bruno Joao Nogueira ^a   Silvestre, Carlos ^a   Cunha, Rita ^a  

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Author keywords

Autonomous systems; Guidance, navigation and control of vehicles

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS ROTORCRAFTS; AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; COLLISION-FREE TRAJECTORY; CONTROL METHODOLOGY; COST FUNCTIONALS; COUPLED DYNAMICS; EXTREME CASE; FINITE HORIZONS; GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION AND CONTROL OF VEHICLES; INPUT SATURATION; NONLINEAR DYNAMIC MODELS; OPEN LOOPS; OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEM; REFERENCE PATH; SIMULATION RESULT; STATE SATURATION; TERRAIN AVOIDANCE; TERRAIN PROFILE;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DYNAMIC MODELS; NAVIGATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 79961019563     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20080706-5-KR-1001.1928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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