Design and experimental attitude control of an unmanned Tilt-Rotor aerial vehicle

IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Robotics: New Boundaries for Robotics, ICAR 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 465-470

  Papachristos, Christos ^a   Alexis, Kostas ^a   Tzes, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SYSTEMS; AERIAL VEHICLE; ATTITUDE STABILIZATION; ATTITUDE TRACKING; COMPLEX MISSION; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; EXPERIMENTAL CONTROL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLIGHT ENDURANCE; TILT ROTOR; VERTICAL TAKE-OFF;

ATTITUDE CONTROL; CONTROLLERS; FIXED WINGS; FLIGHT ENVELOPES; MANEUVERABILITY; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

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EID: 84255178345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2011.6088631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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