Formation control of VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with communication delays

Automatica

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2383-2394

  Abdessameud, Abdelkader ^a   Tayebi, Abdelhamid ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communication delays; Formation control; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; VTOL aircraft

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION DELAYS; CONTROL SCHEMES; DELAY INDEPENDENT; DELAY-DEPENDENT; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; FORMATION CONTROL; LYAPUNOV-KRASOVSKII FUNCTIONALS; NEW DESIGN; TIME VARYING; UNDER-ACTUATED SYSTEMS; VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDINGS;

CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION; DESIGN; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 80053623951     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2011.08.042     Document Type: Article

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