Autonomous Transition Flight for a Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3974-3979

  Casau, P ^a   Cabecinhas, D ^a   Silvestre, C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS; FIXED WINGS; FLIGHT ENVELOPES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TAKEOFF; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTONOMOUS TRANSITIONS; EXOGENOUS DISTURBANCES; HYBRID AUTOMATONS; INPUT TO STATE STABLE; OPERATING MODES; PARAMETRIC UNCERTAINTIES; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES; VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDINGS;

VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84860677922     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2011.6160819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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