Stability of small-scale UAV helicopters and quadrotors with added payload mass under PID control

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 129-142

  Pounds, Paul E I ^a,b   Bersak, Daniel R ^a   Dollar, Aaron M ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aircraft dynamics; Flight stability; Helicopter; Quadrotor; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DYNAMICS; EXPERIENCE BIAS; FLIGHT CONTROL; FLIGHT CONTROLLERS; FLIGHT STABILITY; LOAD CARRYING; LOAD DISTURBANCES; PAYLOAD CHANGE; PAYLOAD MASS; PROPORTIONAL INTEGRAL DERIVATIVES; QUADROTORS; STABILITY BEHAVIOR; UAV HELICOPTERS;

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; DYNAMIC LOADS; HELICOPTERS; STABILITY; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84862128527     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-012-9280-5     Document Type: Article

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