Design of a flexible high performance quadcopter platform breaking the MAV endurance record with laser power beaming

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5166-5172

  Achtelik, Michael C ^a   Stumpf, Jan ^a   Gurdan, Daniel ^a   Doth, Klaus Michael ^a  

^a Ascending Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRUCTURE; FLIGHT CONTROL; FLIGHT TIME; LASER POWER; LASER POWER BEAMING; MATLAB /SIMULINK; MECHANICAL DESIGN;

CONTROL SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN; POSITION CONTROL; ROBOTICS;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84455167471     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048336     Document Type: Conference Paper

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