Development of an UAV for search & rescue applications: Mechatronic integration for a quadrotor helicopter

IEEE AFRICON Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Naidoo, Yogianandh ^a   Stopforth, Riaan ^a   Bright, Glen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Field Robotics; Mechatronics; Quadrotor; Search Rescue; UAV

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; FIELD ROBOTICS; MECHATRONIC INTEGRATION; MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL MODELS; QUADROTOR HELICOPTER; QUADROTORS; SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS; SEARCH-AND-RESCUE APPLICATIONS; SIMULINK; SOFTWARE ELEMENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY; HELICOPTER ROTORS; HELICOPTERS; MATLAB; MECHATRONICS; ROBOTICS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 82955237753     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AFRCON.2011.6072032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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